Target audience – CxOs and IT personnel working with license purchasing and/or compliance management.
The session will be scenario based on imaginary medium sized company which is moving part of their infrastructure to Microsoft Azure IaaS.
I will be covering two aspects of hybrid public cloud licensing:
1. Ways company can purchase Microsoft Azure, covering direct, through partner, etc.
2. Compliance and licensing changes when moving software (like Windows Server, SQL, etc.) from on-premise to cloud.
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• IT equipment is getting old
• Total of 250 employees
• External users accessing web solution
• Is expanding
Typical SMB scenario
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• New vendor portfolio
• Aggressive online sales expansion
• Growing number of employees
Planned changes
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a) Buy additional hardware and licenses
b) Expand to cloud
Expansion options (infrastructure needs)
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• Credit Card only
• Pay after use
• Activation in Azure portal
• No commitments
• Most expensive
Comparison (PAYG)
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• Flexible payment options
• Upfront payment >5.060 €
• Possible growth
• Activation in Azure portal
• Additional 5% discount
• Commitment to use services for 12 months
Comparison (PAYG*12)
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• Through partner order
• Pay after use
• Not all Azure services available
• Through partner activation
• Discount for customer*
• Partner dependent commitment
Comparison (CSP)
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• Through partner
• Upfront payment (approx. 100$ increment)
• Activation by email
• Discount for customer*
• Commitment to use services for 12 months
Comparison (Open)
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• Through LSP partner
• MSFT recommended initial order 20.000 €
• Activation through EA portal
• Discount for customer*
• Commitment for 3 years
• Upfront payment every 12 months
Comparison (EA/MPSA)
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• Monetary commitment is billed by “internal” Azure
price list
• Azure resource pricing can be fixed for agreement
term*
Monetary commitment
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• Operating system licenses
–License with resource (or open source)
–Bring your own license (BYOL)*
Cloud infrastructure licensing (IaaS)
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• LOB + Database (SQL) + Web solution
–License with resource (or open source)
–Buy through Azure Marketplace
–Bring your own license (BYOL)*
Cloud infrastructure licensing (IaaS)
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• Management solution
–Implement new, cloud focused (or open source)
–Bring your own license (BYOL)
Cloud infrastructure licensing (IaaS)