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1. What Is Private Cloud? WHY MICROSOFT
The Microsoft private cloud is optimized for service de-
PRIVATE CLOUD IS THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CLOUD SERVICES on resources dedi-
livery and provides both the flexibility and control to
cated to your organization, whether they exist on-premises or off-premises.
harness the full power of the cloud on your terms.
With a private cloud, you get many of the benefits of public cloud computing—includ-
• Within your reach today: Microsoft provides a fa-
ing self-service, scalability, and elasticity—with the additional control and customization
miliar and consistent platform across physical, virtu-
available from dedicated resources.
al, private, and public cloud environments, so you
Two models for cloud services can be delivered in a private cloud: Infrastructure as a Ser- can use the investments and skill sets you already
vice (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS). With IaaS, you can use infrastructure resources have, while taking advantage of the new value the
(compute, network, and storage) as a service, while PaaS provides a complete application cloud offers.
platform as a service.
• Optimized for service delivery: With the Micro-
Microsoft® offers solutions that deliver IaaS and PaaS for both private and public cloud soft private cloud, you can manage across het-
deployments. This datasheet focuses on Microsoft solutions for IaaS and provides an over- erogeneous physical and virtual environments,
view of Microsoft Hyper-V™ Cloud, a set of programs and initiatives to help customers and standardize and automate datacenter processes,
partners accelerate deployment of IaaS. and provide deep insight into key business applica-
tions—so that you can manage your applications
IAAS IN A PRIVATE CLOUD and services end-to-end in an operationally effi-
You can build a private cloud today with Windows Server® 2008 R2, Microsoft Hyper-V, cient manner.
and Microsoft System Center.
• Harness the full power of the cloud: Powerful
The foundation is built on the Windows Server platform with the Windows Server Ac- identity, application framework, development, and
tive Directory® identity framework, Hyper-V virtualization capability, and System Center management tools span across private and public
end-to-end service management capabilities. cloud environments, giving you the flexibility and
control to build, run, migrate, or extend applica-
The new System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0 simplifies the
tions to the Windows Azure™ public cloud for al-
pooling, allocation, provisioning, and usage tracking of datacenter resources, so that
most unlimited scale whenever you need it.
your business units can consume Infrastructure as a Service.
SELF-SERVICE & PROVISIONING
INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT
PLATFORM
By building a private cloud on Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V,
and System Center, you can take advantage of the comprehensive
Microsoft approach to cloud computing and transform the way
IDENTITY you deliver IT services to your business.