With the Microsoft cloud strategy, organizations can now move towards cloud computing models with the confidence that their existing investments in their datacenter are safe, and can be leveraged in this new paradigm. Existing applications and services will be able to move to the private cloud without the need to learn unproven technologies, or introduce unnecessary complexity. At the same time Microsoft will evolve its private cloud offerings by bringing learning and technology from running Microsoft’s global datacenters and the Windows® Azure platform.
The Microsoft Private Cloud enables:
- Management of the datacenter fabric as a single pool of resources.
- Delivery of scalable applications and workloads.
- Focus on the management of the datacenter service and it’s dependencies.
HOW TO BUILD A PRIVATE CLOUD TODAY
Today customers can begin their journey to the private cloud by deploying the Microsoft products and technologies they know and trust. The flexible and familiar platform and tools you use today will be the foundation for your private cloud. As we enable our customers on this path, Microsoft will deliver the technologies that allow enterprises to build private cloud within their existing datacenters based on enhancements to Windows Server and System Center.
Microsoft is enabling customers to build the foundation for a private cloud infrastructure using Windows Server® and System Center family of products with the Dynamic Infrastructure Toolkit for System Center (availability scheduled in the first half of 2010).
WHAT IS THE DYNAMIC INFRASTRUCTURE TOOLKIT FOR SYSTEM CENTER?
The Dynamic Infrastructure Toolkit for System Center is a free, partner-extensible toolkit that will enable datacenters to dynamically pool, allocate, and manage resources to enable IT as a service. Whether you’re an enterprise customer, a systems integrator, or an independent software vendor, the toolkit will help you create agile, virtualized IT infrastructures. You’ll get:
- Tested guidance and best practices to help configure and deploy a private cloud infrastructure.
- Automated web portals and a light provisioning engine that are tightly integrated with System Center products.
- Guidance to help partners easily extend functionality.
For individuals interested in the Microsoft “Private Cloud” concept, pay close attention to what’s happening with Microsoft’s Dynamic Infrastructure Toolkit for System Center which will provide customers with a great blueprint for laying down the necessary elements to create such an infrastructure.
- WEBCAST: “’A Beginner’s Guide to Building the Foundation for a Cloud Computing”
http://blogs.technet.com/ddcalliance/archive/2009/10/28/on-demand-webcast-available-for-viewing-a-beginner-s-guide-to-building-the-foundation-for-a-cloud-computing-infrastructure.aspx - WEBCAST: “Building a Private Cloud with the Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Enterprises”
http://blogs.technet.com/ddcalliance/archive/2009/12/07/don-t-miss-the-webcast-this-week-on-december-11th-2009.aspx - WEBCAST: “Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Enterprises: Enabling the Foundation for Private Cloud”
http://blogs.technet.com/ddcalliance/archive/2009/12/21/on-demand-webcast-available-for-viewing.aspx
For more details on the Dynamic Datacenter Toolkit for System Center, visit:
http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/en/us/private-cloud.aspx
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