What’s Microsoft Got in the Cloud and Why Does it Matter to Nonprofits? Stan FreckDirector, Cloud ComputingMicrosoft US Public Sector
CHANGINGDEMOGRAPHICSUBIQUITOUSCONNECTIVITYINCREASED EXPECTATIONS, BUT REDUCED RESOURCESTODAYS ENVIRONMENT
What is the cloud?An approach to computing that’s about getting scalable computing resources on the internet and connecting to (and from) a variety of devices and endpoints
CLOUD   2000s & FutureCloud Computing, Social NetworksProducts>Solutions>ServicesINTERNET    Mid ‘90sBrowsers, Email,  eCommerce, Hosting, Wi-Fi, Web 2.0CLIENT/SERVER    Mid ‘80sDistributed ComputingPC & APPS    Early ’80sWord Processor, SpreadsheetsDOS, GUI, Windows
Managing Services, Not InfrastructureThe Next Logical Step in Enterprise ComputingOn Premises – “Feast or Famine”Cloud Computing – “Right Capacity, Right Time”Managed costsCapex/opex flexibilityCapacity on demandSmaller carbon footprint …all of which frees up your resources to focus on your mission
SaaSPaaSIaaS
“Don’t run out and do this just because it’s ‘cloud,’ and don’t run out and not do it because it’s ‘cloud.’ If the goals and objectives of your organization lead you to a cloud solution, then go with it.”Carol LawsonCIO California Public Utilities Commission
Microsoft’s VisionPCMobileWeb
Azure, Live, OnlineLive ServicesOnline Services3rd PartyApps & SolutionsNetworksDatacentersComputers
Microsoft Consumer Cloud Services500M Active Windows Live IDs!369M People Using Hotmail!Over 3B WW Queries Each Month!Over 600M Unique Users14B Ads Per MonthOver 6M Songs In The Catalog20M People On Xbox Live!2B Unique Calls Per YearCLOUD SERVICESTV/HOMEPCMOBILE
Microsoft Online/Azure Cloud ServicesCLOUD SERVICESBUSINESS APPSCOLLABORATIONSTORAGEPLATFORMIDENTITYCOMMUNICATIONSPRODUCTIVITYON-PREMISES
Benefits for your organizationStaff can focus on what they do best: mission, programsAlways on the latest technologyEnterprise-class reliability and securityEconomies of skill and scaleSave money
What Do Customers Want To Know About The Cloud?CUSTOMERS ASK US:Is It Secure?Should We Go ‘All In’ Or Hybrid?How Will We Gain Productivity?Can You Help Us Comply With Regulations?Will I Still Have Control?Will My Legacy Apps Still Work?
What Do Customers Want To Know About The Cloud?CUSTOMERS ASK US:Is It Secure?Enable Physical & Logical Data Protection
Our Datacenters Are All ISO 27001 Certified
Leading Security Architects And Years Of Enterprise ExperienceWhat Do Customers Want To Know About The Cloud?CUSTOMERS ASK US:Should We Go ‘All In’ Or Hybrid?You Can Go To An ‘All In’ Model
You Can Migrate Specific Apps (i.e. email)
You Can Migrate Specific UsersWhat Do Customers Want To Know About The Cloud?CUSTOMERS ASK US:How Will We Gain Productivity?End Users Have ‘Anywhere Access’ To Data & Applications
Cloud Services For End User Collaboration
Simplified IT Maintenance
Users Get Our Most Up To Date Innovation – “Evergreen” PromiseWhat Do Customers Want To Know About The Cloud?CUSTOMERS ASK US:Can You Help Us Comply With Regulations?We Have Experience With Government & Clients In Highly Regulated Industries
We Will Work To Adapt To New And Changing Regulations & Requirements To Meet Your NeedsWhat Do Customers Want To Know About The Cloud?CUSTOMERS ASK US:Will I Still Have Control?Customers Own & Control The Use Of Their Data
We DO NOT Data Mine Or Monetize Our Commercial Services Through Advertising
We Have A Long History Of Hosting And Provide Reliability SLAsWhat Do Customers Want To Know About The Cloud?CUSTOMERS ASK US:Will My Legacy Apps Still Work?Use Your Active Directory Federation
Cloud Services Built With Interoperability In Mind
Help To Migrate Apps When NecessaryWhat matters?Vision matters …Commitment matters …		Choice matters  …			Platform matters …				Scale & efficiency matter …Security & privacy matter ...	Roadmap matters …		Investment matters … (so does business model)											Customer success matters …(Real-world, Large-scale, Enterprise-wide … not pilots)20
Scale & efficiency matter …(6 years)2B emails/day>1M users(7 years)5B confmins/yrWeb Applications(15 years)450M+ active users(2010)Avail to 400M consumers at release(11 years)2B queries/ mth(11 years)320M+ activeusers(12 years)Largest non-ICP/IP cloud service x100M users(13 years)550M users/mth(15 years)450M+ active users$2.3B data center investment15 global data centers (135 total MW)>200 of the world’s largest services, some for >15 yearsSLAs w/ financial penalties … not more of the same if we missSmallest customers go along for the ride with the largest
Security& privacy matter …New enhancements and certificationsAchieved ISO27001 certificationCompleted SAS70 Type I and II auditsControls that assist with HIPAA, FERPA, and 21 CFR Part 11TIC complianceFIPS 140-2 complianceMaster Administrator featureBPOS will have the followingFISMA certification and accreditation within 6 monthsTwo Factor AuthenticationEncryption through RMSSAS70 Type I and II AuditsISO 27001Trusted Internet ConnectionFIPS 140-2Coming Soon:Controls that assist with:FISMA21 CFR Part 11Two Factor AuthenticationHIPAAEncryption through RMSFERPAMaster AdministratorSmallest customers go along for the ride with the largest
Roadmap matters …Online DedicatedOn PremiseOnline StandardWave 2010Functionality and FlexibilityWave 2007Total CostSmallest customers go along for the ride with the largest
Investment matters …TOTAL FY09 R&D INVESTMENTFY09: $9.1B$6.3B$5.2BSOURCE: 10K & 20K SEC Filings 12/31/08 Except Oracle 5/31/09, RIM, Sony and Nintendo 3/31/09$4.9B$2.8B$2.8B$1.1B$.7B$.4BMicrosoftSonyOracleGoogleIBMCiscoRIMNintendoAppleSmallest customers go along for the ride with the largest
Customer success matters …13 of the top 20 global telecom firms use MS Online48 out of 50 states use MS Online16 of the top 20 global pharmaceutical companies use MS OnlineOver 10,000 schools use Live@edu (in just six months)7 of the top 10 global energy companies use MS Online50% of the Fortune 500 use MS OnlineOver 40 million paid MS Online usersSmallest customers go along for the ride with the largestOver 500 Government entities use MS Online15 of the top 20 global banks use MS Online
Smallest customers go along for the ride with the largest
What is available to nonprofits today?
SOME NON-PROFIT SUCCESS STORIESKinship House, Girls Inc., CCS-Rainbow Family Services (Portland, OR)
Microsoft Online ServicesEnterprise class software delivered via subscription services hosted by Microsoft and sold with partnersWeb ApplicationsBusiness Productivity Online Suite
Microsoft Dynamics CRM for NonprofitsCustomized and Affordable
Solution pack with functionality for:
Donation and pledge management
Member and constituent management
Campaign management
Case management
Event management
Tailored dashboards and reports
Available within Outlook and off-line
Payment solution for collecting online donationsannouncing
Microsoft TownHalla new online engagement platform, hosted on Windows Azure, that organizations can use to build interactive experiences and dialogue with communities online around various topics, issues, opinions, etc. www.microsofttownhall.com
Not just on the web… everywhereTabletsPC / MacMobileWebIntranetSocialWidgets for 3rd Party Sites
Microsoft TownHall isa cloud-hosted social experiencemoderated forumcommunity forumideas sitewith a built-in reputation systemincent users to create identityusers earn points and badgesoptimized for data collection
Microsoft TownHall software is available at nocost! download at: code.msdn.microsoft.com/TownHallOnly requirement is that it run on the Azure platform	get pricing and a free trial: www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/offers/ Customize in-house or engage our partners	find partners at: www.micrsoft.com/TownHallWhat does it cost?No servers to buyNo new IT staff to hireNo long term commitmentsEasy to scale – use only what you need, when you need itRun on it’s own website or appear as part of your existing site (i.e. – townhall.yoursitename.com)
Partners trained and ready to helpcustomized sitesintegration into existing sitesturnkey SaaS offeringswww.microsofttownhall.com
How to get it – Microsoft Online ServicesBusiness Productivity Online Suite (BPOS)Engage experienced BPOS partner to plan migration and implementationnPowerMicrosoft Partner NetworkImmediate needs/interest? Contact Microsoft Community Affairs to discussDynamics CRM for Nonprofits Get the Dynamics CRM and the Nonprofit SolutionDynamics CRM Online for Nonprofits: crm.dynamics.com/ngoNeed On Premise? Need more than CRM? Check out TechSoup!Get Expertise from partners: Npower; Microsoft Partner NetworkMicrosoft TownHallGet the code  code.msdn.microsoft.com/TownHallGet help from partners:  Synteractive, MondoRobot, Inetium, Close ToolsGet free Azure time (while it lasts!) www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/offers/
“The system runs seven-by-twenty-four,never gets sick, never goes on vacation, and we can’t replicate that.”Gordon Peterson, IT Director – City of Carlsbad, CABusiness Productivity Online Suite Customer38
“THE BEST WAY TO PREDICT THE FUTURE IS TO CREATE IT.”-Peter DruckerLearn more:http://www.microsoft.com/cloudhttp://www.microsoft.com/online
APPENDIX – OFFERING/ROADMAP DETAILS
A Guide to Business Productivity Online Services Companies of any sizeFull featured for flexibilityFull IT administration and configurationRich client, web, and mobile accessMultiple license optionsIndividual professionals and small organizationsLimited features for simplicity and ease of useLimited administrationRich client, web, and mobile accessE-commerce or partner resale purchase onlyOptimized for large enterpriseFull featured for flexibilityFull IT administration and configurationRich client, web, and mobile accessIntegration with LOB appsIndividuals	          Small Organizations 		Midsize Companies 	            Large Enterprises41Microsoft Confidential
Wave 14 InvestmentsFederationServer ParityActive DirectoryOn-Premises ServersTrusted CommunitiesClose the feature gap between server & serviceReliable & ScalableNew FeaturesMobility & VoiceUnified MessagingMobile SharePointVoice OfferingSee details on next slide42Microsoft Confidential
Exchange OnlineOC Online & VoiceOnline PlatformSharePoint OnlineServer 2010 UpgradesOCS Server 2010Exchange 2010SharePoint 2010ADFS 2.0Communicator Web AccessTransport RulesWindows Mobile ExperienceImproved Mac SupportEmail Record ManagementMOSS WorkflowsFederationImproved ScalabilityMy SitesDistribution ListsInternational ExpansionFederated SearchImproved OWAMobile Companion OfferingImproved Admin & User ExperienceBusiness Data Catalog & Web PartsOne Phone NumberMail TipsIgnore/Move ConversationExcel ServicesIntra-domain calls through OC OnlineConversation ViewSimul-RingBusiness IntelligenceVoicemail PreviewExtranet/Anonymous OptionsBPOS Wave 14 Feature DetailsDual fork to mobile43Microsoft Confidential
Business Productivity Online SuiteHigh Level Roadmap2008200920102011H2 2010Standalone Unified MessagingNew Retention PoliciesAdditional controlsProjects OnlineFASTMarch 2010Update withExchange, SharePoint Server 2010Feb 2009DesklessWorkerBlackberry Admin PortalLower Recovery Time/Point Objectives (RTO/RPO)SharePoint WAN AccelerationSeptember 2009SharePoint ExtranetAd-hoc ConferencingDesktop Sharing5GB mailbox250 Seats Live MeetingMultiple AD supportTwo Factor AuthenticationBPOS-Dedicated6-8 months updateH1 2011Update with Office CommunicationServer 2010March 2010OC  Online Voice with Unified MessagingMinor UpdateMajor UpdateQ2 2010 SharePoint Online Limited BetaExchange Online Limited BetaOffice Web Apps  Limited BetaOrder on Behalf TrackingH2 2010Update with Exchange,SharePoint, OC 2010 ServersOffice Web Apps June 2009Increase mailbox attachment sizeOutlook 2003 w/o Free BusyAugust 2009SMTP RelayExchange JournalingNew language in MOACBPOS-Standard6-8 weeks updateApril 2009Deskless Worker19 New MarketsOC Online Blackberry Device SupportQ4 2009Additional markets and languagesImproved domain managementDelegate Access/Send-As for Shared MailboxOutlook 2003 ConnectorExchange Online Usage ReportingSelf Service BES supportPartner name on Invoice (Nov 2009)Delegated Admin (Dec 2009)September 2009Support 30K seatsImprove Mac SupportBulk ActivationPOP Mail ClientJuly 2009Hosted Exchange migration toolIncrease SharePoint upload size to 250MBLive Meeting Standard to 250 usersQuick TrialPartner order on behalfH1 2011Update with OC conferencing and voice
Detail Comparison(Standard)Client AccessE-mail,CalendaringContacts,DirectoryUM, FaxSecurityCompliance/ArchivingAdministrationDelegates (“send on behalf of”)
Shared mailboxes (“send as”)
Address rewrite
Server-side forwarding
Out of Office
WebReady document viewing
Conference rooms
Resource booking attendant
Conference room delegation
Tasks
Personal contacts
Shared contacts
Personal distribution groups
Shared distribution groups

Cloud computing: Stan Freck

Editor's Notes

  • #6 What is the promise of cloud computing and how should folks in your positions think about when to apply it and when it might make sense to keep a solution on-premises? Industry is converging on the definition of cloud computing, but NISTs definition serves as a good common baseline. The definition calls out 5 characteristics of cloud computing:on-demand self-service, ubiquitous network access, location independent resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and pay per use. One key concept here is that cloud computing leads to a world in which an organization can focus on managing services rather than infrastructure. With on-premises solutions, you had to choose between building and paying for excess capacity to accommodate demand spikes or paying for the dissatisfaction that arises when you build capacity for normal operations and customers can’t access systems during peak demand. With cloud computing, you can scale up and down with demand, getting the “right capacity, at the right time.”Additionally, cloud computing business models allow organizations to better control costs, shift cost from Capex to Opex, get capacity on demand as mentioned above, and even reduce their carbon footprint as they take advantages of the economies of scale and economies of skill of cloud computing. One of the earliest adopters of MSFT cloud services is Energizer – they run their communication and collaboration stack completely on our cloud services and have for several years now. Their CIO has said that “there is no value to my organization for me to run a single server.” His point was that all the benefits of cloud computing allowed his organization to free up resources previously focused on managing infrastructure and focus more closely on their core mission. Interestingly, while there was clearly some concern internally about the change, a year after making the shift to our services, the organization saw increases in job satisfaction and alignment with the corporate mission as people were able to focus on adding business value rather than managing servers in the back office.
  • #7 NIST also refers to 3 delivery mechanisms for cloud computing – the industry is converging on these as well. This is a slide from the Center for Digital Government showing those: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) – essentially vendors providing a data center as a service, where customers can buy server instances; Platform as a Service (PaaS) – development tools and environment allowing customers and ISVs to build applications that consume computing, storage, and other services in the cloud rather than relying on on-premise servers to provide those capabilities; and Software as a Service (SaaS) – software applications delivered across the internet.Let’s look at the impact of each model as you move from IaaS to SaaS …
  • #8 Cloud computing is a new paradigm – with some referring to it as the fifth wave of computing following themainframe, client-server, the web, and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) modelsBut that doesn’t mean it should be adopted blindly – as Carol Lawson, CIO for the California Public Utilities Commission, points out in the quote here … we should be planful about applying cloud computing and do so where it makes sense.Customers I talk too have needs and demands (or simply desires) that mean that while cloud solutions will be appealing in many cases, on-premise solutions will be with us for some time to come.
  • #21 I structured the remainder of this deck to address the things I would want to investigate if I were in your shoes and considering taking advatage of cloud computing. I asked myself, assuming I have looked at the benefits and tradeoffs of cloud computing and decided I want to move forward, “what matters when making this decision?”I came up with 9 things I would like to understand from any vendor I planned to rely on for cloud services. The are: vision, commitment, choice, platform, scale & efficiency, security, roadmap, investment (and business model), and customer success (real large-scale, enterprise-wide, adoption, not pilots). I’ll discuss these in the slides that follow along with Microsoft’s position on each.
  • #22 Scale and efficiency matter not only in the datacenter but in the scale of the solutions being run there as well. There is a commonly held belief tha Microsoft is the new kid on the block in cloud services, that Google and others have been at this much longer and at greater scale given their consumer services (search, gmail, etc.). But let’s examine some facts for a second …Starting back a decade and a half ago with Windows Live Hotmail and through today with Microsoft Online Services, we have a long history of running internet-scale, highly reliable services for consumers, businesses, and governments. The list may surprise you … so may the scale. Let me highlight a few:Hotmail – for 15 years, this service has provided reliable web-based email with almost half a billion active users todayWindows Update – this is one people don’t often think of, but demonstrates our delivery at incredible scale. Hundreds of millions of users both consumers and businesses use this service every day … and why don’t people think of it? Well, for one we don’t promote it and for another, it just works – when is the last time you saw a story about a security breach or a service failure for Windows Update?XBox Live – we were the leaders in this marketplace, creating the first widely accepted online gaming community with almost half a billion active users todayMicrosoft Online Services – processing over 2B emails a day and serving over a million usersComing soon! Office Web Applications which will be browser-based versions of our familiar Office products and will be available to 400M consumers immediately upon launch.In summary,We have been running cloud services for over 15 yearsWe run some of the largest services in the world (over 200 Microsoft cloud services run in the datacenters we discussed previously)We provide Service Level Agreements (SLAs) backed by financial penalties if we don’t meet our targets … we cut you a check instead of giving you a service credit for more of the same like some of our competitors
  • #24 We believe a roadmap matter – not just having one, but letting others know what it is. What you see here may be the simplest technology roadmap I have ever presented at Microsoft. But I show it to make a couple points:Remember that as you move along the yellow arrow from the left with our multi-tenant cloud solutions to the right in a traditional on-premises solution you gain functionality and flexibility while the total cost increasesWith each ensuing wave of technology, you will see us close the gap on the functionality between the cloud-based and on-premises solutions as shown by the blue arrowAnother way to visualize this is shown on the next slide … a more traditional view of the features and functionality for one of our products – Exchange.
  • #25 Investment matters … on a previous slide I mentioned the $2.3B we have invested to date in datacenter build out – it is also important to consider the R&D investment aimed at this space. This slide shows the R&D investments for FY09 for a variety of technology companies. What is important to also think about is what these investments are aimed at enabling.For us, the majority of the $9B+ we invest in R&D is going towards our core business – solutions for enterprises and users. We have some other investments that consume a part to be sure, but the overwhelming majority of this money is targeted at our client and server software and the service offering versions now coming to the fore … and as we move feature toward parity on that front, almost all of it can arguably be said to accrue benefit to our cloud services and the customers taking advantage of them.Looking at Google, their $2.8B is also aimed at their core business – though in their case, that business is online advertising. This business model difference is important to understand as it means each company has a different set of tradeoffs to consider and this will drive their decisions.
  • #26 more than 40 million paying users of Microsoft Online Services, and global customers include 7 of the top 10 global energy companies, 13 of the top 20 global telecom firms, 15 of the top 20 global banks, and 16 of the top 20 global pharmaceutical companies
  • #27 Finally, we think customer success matters – real-world, large-scale infrastructure replacement – not pilots, or press stories about procurements that never add value and reduce cost for the customer.Our BPOS service has over 1M paid seats at customers ranging from large multi-nationals like Nokia, Glaxo-Smith Kline, and Coca-Cola Enterprises to thousands of smaller organizations.The names you see here are customers that we have explicitly requested permission in order to use their names – there are many others available as case studies on our web site and thousands more who prefer not to be named.
  • #38 CRM is available now – Online charity price is $9.99 per user/month and comes with the nonprofit solution (accelerator). On premise is available through donations and charity sales, accelerator will be available for partners shortly and can be used with on premise.  Dynamics CRM – prior to our launch of the nonprofit solution, the SW was popular with orgs as a case management tool and/or a business intelligence tool that allows United Way orgs to aggregate donor/volunteer/workplace giving donors in separate systems into a common interface. United Way InternationalUnited Way King CountyUnited Way Twin CitiesGirls, Inc.ARCCatholic CharitiesRight to Play (Canada)BPOS is available (full price) but charity pricing is not yet available publicly (because we can’t yet process discounts, and when it goes public we need to be ready to support transactions and qualifications at scale). The business desk is supporting exception requests and providing manual discounts – but the process is messy. We are telling strategic orgs (like the audience tomorrow) that they can come to us for more information if they want to get on board in advance of public announcement of charity pricing. When available, prices will be approximately $4 per user/month for BPOS-S and if they want to move ahead now, with a partner, we can help them get this pricing today.BPOS – Orgs deployed: all deal with dispersed offices/teams. BPOS is supporting collaboration, communication, and enabling orgs to deploy resources to more strategic initiatives (getting them out of the server room and into service delivery) Red Cross – SwedenConcern InternationalNetHopeSpecial Olympics – USSpecial Olympics – Europe/Eurasia Boys & Girls Clubs of America – 50% of the local offices have been using hosted exchange for years in combination with web hosting. Many are now considering BPOS
  • #42 Most of your are probably familiar with BPOS options listed here but let’s recap:BPOS- Lite is a limited feature solution designed for 1-25 seats only so probably not too relevant to our client baseBPOS-S of course is our multi-tenant offering providing the closest pure cloud offering from MS todayAnd BPOS-D for large enterprise customers that need integration and customization or more refined security and compliance aspects.
  • #45 Here is a high level roadmap for both Standard and Dedicated offering. As we previously mentioned, our Dedicated offering is updated less frequently in a 6-8 months cycle. The white color font gives you a sense of some of the previous updates that we have made. Some of these key features include support extranet users for SharePoint Online, Ad-hoc conferencing via OC Online and support of two factor authentication. More information about our current dedicated offering is described in our service descriptions. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=cf7d4db8-4e7c-4077-87ea-b64c57e4c98c&displaylang=enOur major updates are highlighted in the “yellow”. Our next set of major update is when we will update our services based on the next generation of our Exchange, SharePoint and Office Communications Servers code name “Wave 14”. For the Dedicated offering, new customers will be deployed using these next general server technology starting in March 2010 for Exchange and SharePoint. We will continue to deploy with OCS 2007 R2 in 2010 but will continue to add new capabilities such as OC Voice . We don’t expect all the Exchange and SharePoint 2010 capabilities to be available initially. The remaining features will be available in subsequent updates.As for Standard, the service update rhythm is much more frequent. We update that service every 6-8 weeks. We started doing this in June 2009 and some of the major updates include POP3, Outlook 2003 support and improve Mac support. Details of these feature updates can be found on our TechNet Blog. http://blogs.technet.com/msonline/In the next 90 days (Q4 2009), we plan make additional updates to our service. The key capabilities include full calendaring support for Outlook 2003. This will require client side installation of a connector software. We will continue to expand our markets and languages supported. As part of our improved Blackberry device support improvements, we plan to provide a web portal to customer administrator to manage some admin functions of their Blackberry devices without having to submit a support request. There are two important partner features that I will discuss in the next two slides. Updates of next generation server technology for Standard is not scheduled until H2 2010 for Exchange and SharePoint. We will have limited beta prior to this but the details are to be determined.
  • #46 I won’t go into detail on the list of features here. This is an eye chart and provided mostly for your review when looking for specific features. I just want to illustrate the previous point about functionality convergence.The sum of the features on this page are those currently available in the on-premises Exchange server product. Those in the blue boxes are the features available with Exchange Online today. New features planned to be made available in the H2 2010 update are shown in the brown boxes, with the remaining features still only available on the server shown in purple boxes. As you can see convergence is happening rapidly. In fact, with the next release in this case, we will be fairly close to parity as there will be features of the on-premise product that may never make sense to move to a cloud solution.
  • #47 This is a detail view of the features currently available with Online today, new features planned to be made available in the H2 2010 update and remaining features still only available with server only.
  • #49 Microsoft’s services platform extends Windows to the web and, as always, Microsoft is betting its own technologies upon this extension of its platform with the Microsoft Online applications. Windows Azure is a new Windows offering at the Web tier of computing. This represents a significant extension to our family of Windows computing platforms from Windows Vista and Windows Mobile at the experience tier, Windows Server at the enterprise tier, and now Windows Azure being our Web tier offering, what you might think of as Windows in the cloud.Windows Azure is our lowest level foundation for building and deploying a high scale service, providing core capabilities such as virtualized computation, scalable storage in the form of blogs, tables and streams, and perhaps most importantly an automated service management system, a fabric controller that handles provisioning, geo-distribution, and the entire lifecycle of a cloud-based service.You can think of Windows Azure as a new service-based operating environment specifically targeted for this new cloud design point, striking the best possible balance between two seemingly opposing goals. We're betting on Azure ourselves, and as the system scales out, we'll be bringing more and more of our own key apps and key services onto Windows Azure because it will be our highest scale, highest availability, most economical, and most environmentally sensitive way of hosting services in the cloud.Microsoft also provides higher-level developer services including Live Services, Microsoft .NET Services and Microsoft SQL Services. These services, when taken together with Windows Azure itself, constitute a much larger Azure Services Platform. These higher level developer services, which you can mix and match a la carte, provide functions that as Windows developers you'll find quite valuable and familiar and useful. Dynamics CRM and SharePoint are two of our most capable and most extensible platforms for business content, collaboration, and the rapid delivery of solutions. Much more detail about these two sets of services will be disclosed in the coming months but they fill a very important role in the overall Azure Services Platform.Lastly, as always, Microsoft bets on its own platforms and with Windows Live, Office Live and the Microsoft Online applications, customers are today able to benefit from Microsoft applications delivered as services. We will go into more details on each of these layers but let’s start with Windows Azure.
  • #67 I want to pull back now to the overall set of offerings from Microsoft and walk through that at a high level.CIOs may look at and talk about a variety of cloud solutions but the one we all come back to as the “first to go” is email. We love to talk about email in the cloud, but our strategy is much bigger and broader than just email.Underpinning all our cloud offerings is Windows Azure and the foundational services under the Azure umbrella – SQl, SharePoint, CRM, .NET, and Live. In addition to providing a platform for customers and ISVs to build internal apps, citizen facing services, or enhance transparency by simply making relevant data feeds available for anyone to pull from for mashups or other community-led use of the data, we will build our cloud services on Azure. We obviously believe in the business model for our own business as well.On top of the Azure IaaS and PaaS stack, we deliver several SaaS offerings today:Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS)Exchange Online is part of a broader set of productivity tools – web conferencing, IM/presence, document collab, workflow, email archiving, etc. – all delivered as cloud services.Packaged LOB SolutionsThese offerings go beyond horizontal productivity apps to specialized packaged LOB solutions like xRM, constituent management, case management, economic development, field inspection, permitting & licensing, and a host of othersFull MS PlatformIn the very near future you will see an ever growing wave of cloud-enabled offerings from MS, starting with things like Office Web Apps, hosted voice over IP, hosted desktop management and eventually *everything* Microsoft builds will have both a software and services component