This document discusses how cloud computing can provide value for application development. It outlines common development infrastructure building blocks like team member desktops, collaboration environments, pre-production, and production environments. It then provides examples of how tools in Microsoft's Azure cloud platform can help improve agility, enable continuous delivery, and reduce costs through on-demand provisioning and pay-as-you-go models. Specific services highlighted include cloud-based load testing, automated builds/continuous integration, and application monitoring. Sample pricing models and a Telenor case study demonstrate how organizations have benefited from migrating development infrastructure to the cloud.

1. Cloud Value for
Development
Michael Koester | Microsoft

2. Cloud Value for Application Development
• Cloud Computing Patterns
• Development Infrastructure Building Blocks
‒ Team Member Desktop
‒ Team Collaboration Environment
‒ Pre-Production
‒ Production
• Cloud Value by the Numbers
‒ Sample Scenarios
‒ Licensing: MSDN and Enterprise Agreements (EA)
‒ Case Study: Telenor

5. VPN

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9. Spin up powerful virtual machines in less than 5 minutes
Standardize the team member desktop
Lock down and secure the team member desktop
Create specific development environments for different projects
Use the full power of Visual Studio from other OSs, low-power devices or tablets
Access your development environment from anywhere, anytime, any device

11. Design, develop and deploy applications using ALM services accessible anywhere, anytime
Ramp up a new project in minutes
Host code and project data in the cloud
Integrate external resources and stakeholders
Use shared cloud services for load testing and build
Extend your ALM infrastructure to the cloud for massive scale

12. Plan, build, deploy and manage app
development using a comprehensive
suite of services accessible to the team
wherever, whenever.

15. BACKLOG
REQUIREMENTS
No infrastructure overhead | Pay as you use services | Available anywhere | Connected IDE
Agile Portfolio Management
Kanban customization
Work item tagging
Work item charts
Team Rooms
Code discussions
Flexible version control
Cloud load testing
Web-based test management
Continuous Deployment
Automated builds and CI
Application Insights
Stakeholder feedback
requests
Browser-based lightweight IDE

16. Cloud Load Testing
Create and run performance and load
tests without complicated test harnesses
and expensive infrastructure.
Load tests scale to whatever level you
need to make your test run realistic.
Easy to get started.
Cloud Build
Create and execute automated builds
using hosted build controllers/agents.
Build image provided; no need to spend
time/money maintaining build machines.
A clean build environment every time.
Application Insights
Proactively monitor your applications
and ensure they are available and
performing as expected.
Gather information that helps to
continuously improve your applications
and prioritize future investments.

19. 3) New cloud-only monthly user plans
2) Included for MSDN subscribers
Increased value to existing and new MSDN subscribers User plans purchased via Windows Azure.
1) Completely free for small teams
FREE: 5 users
FREE: 60 minutes Cloud Build per month
FREE: 5 users
Additional users $20/month
All users $45/month
Max 10 per account with this plan
Includes use of the VS Pro IDE
All users $60/month

20. Application Insights
Pricing and Offerings TBD
Cloud Load Testing
FREE: 15,000 virtual user minutes
per month
$0.002 per virtual user minute
thereafter
Requires Visual Studio Ultimate
Cloud Build
FREE: 60 minutes per month
$0.05 per minute thereafter

21. Each developer can self-provision snapshots that mirror the production environment
Developers perform unit and integration testing in isolated individual environments
Production issues or incompatible code are discovered earlier
Individual resources can be provisioned for free using MSDN credits
Increase agility by provisioning on-demand environments when needed

23. Agility through self-provisioning of lab and test environments
Realistic scale testing in environments that mirror production
Lift and shift application environments to the cloud
Connect cloud and on-premises resources for hybrid applications
Save money by eliminating over-provisioning

25. Challenges
- Move from SharePoint 2007 to
SharePoint 2013 across 18 different
business units, spread across 12
countries
- Quickly create a large SharePoint farm
for Dev/Test within time and cost limits
Benefits
- Scale: Limitless resources for Dev/Test
- Speed: Build a farm in days, not weeks
- Cost: scale up/down as needed
- Agility: Familiar tools and automation
- Portability: On-premises or hosted
”Weneededtotakeanew approachandWindowsAzure
VirtualMachinesprovided theright solutionforourbusiness.”
AndreasHogberg, Telenor
http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Windows-Azure/Telenor-Group/Telenor-Uses-Windows-Azure-Virtual-Machines-for-Fast-
Efficient-Cost-saving-Development-and-Testing-of-company-wide-SharePoint-2013-Platform/710000002349

26. Team Member
Desktop
Team Collaboration Pre-Production Production
On-Premises
Cloud
+ Shared Services
Virtual Machines
Roles
Storage
Networking
(*) # VPN to network
On-Prem and Cloud
resources.
Visual Studio Online
Shared Services
Totals
Total US$/month*
Development Team
- # of team members in Dev Org
- # of applications under development
- # of deployments and releases/month
- Typical application pattern(s)
Needs
- ...
(*) equals yearly EA committment of Total US$http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/?scenario=full