Datacenter & Cloud Infrastructure and Management

Datacenter & Cloud

Services

The Datacenter &

Cloud Services

portfolio of offerings

provides holistic

cloud solutions,

optimization and

modernization of

datacenters to help

reduce costs, improve

service levels, and

drive business agility.

Datacenter & Cloud

Infrastructure and ManagementToday’s organizations are demanding dynamic, agile systems that can support their constantly changing business

needs. IT decision-makers are challenged to rapidly deploy well-architected, complex hybrid cloud environments

comprised of on-premises datacenters, service providers, and public clouds in order to support the demands of their

business. To improve the returns of their infrastructure investments, organizations should consider:

• Public, Private, or Hybrid Cloud - Implementing cloud solutions and optimizing application and workload

deployments to on-premises, service providers, and Microsoft Azure.

• Lowering the cost of IT: Reliance on fully redundant datacenters escalates the cost of delivering and maintaining

infrastructure, stifling an IT organization’s ability to transform alongside the changing needs of the business

• Eliminating disparate systems: Owning and maintaining multiple infrastructure and management systems is

taxing on budget and staff

• Removing silos: Allowing each group to purchase and maintain their own IT assets encourages poor utilization

patterns and decreases agility

• Managing service levels: Many applications require higher service levels and organizations must reduce the

impact of both planned and unplanned outages

The Microsoft Services Datacenter & Cloud Infrastructure & Management offering is designed to help organizations

achieve all of these considerations by developing and implementing infrastructure and management more quickly

while helping reduce both complexity and risk. These solutions can support multiple scenarios that are provided by

private, public, and hybrid cloud computing environments.

The Microsoft virtualization platform along with advanced storage and networking capabilities creates the

infrastructure foundation for private cloud solutions. Enhanced features provide high-performance and scalability,

increased control, and improved service levels.

A holistic cloud management solution makes it possible for organizations to implement the right cloud characteristics

which provide maximum benefit to their specific organization, be it self-service, elasticity, resource pooling, or cost

metering & billing. Reduce operational costs and simplify IT management by integrating disparate technologies in a

centralized management solution while also improving the predictability of service delivery by application and service

owners. With Datacenter & Cloud Management, organizations can deploy a centralized management solution that is

both flexible and cost effective.

Hybrid Enterprise

Microsoft Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform that enables organizations to quickly build, deploy, and

manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. A hybrid Infrastructure-as-a-

Service (IaaS) which leverages Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2 and Windows Azure provides a high

density infrastructure supporting a wide range of services and capabilities to enable greater agility, lower cost, and

improved efficiency.

Increased Innovation

Reduced Cost & Risk

Reduced Time to Value

Potential Benefits

For more information about Consulting and Support solutions from Microsoft, contact your Microsoft Services representative or visit www.microsoft.com/services

The Datacenter & Cloud Infrastructure & Management offering utilizes an Infrastructure-as-a-Service

(IaaS) Product Line Architecture (PLA) from MCS which includes patterns that have been pre-

architected and field-tested so that you can rapidly develop a cloud infrastructure based on Windows

Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2 and Windows Azure. By implementing hybrid cloud

configurations built on the IaaS PLA, the Datacenter & Cloud Infrastructure & Management offering

provides organizations both the control and the flexibility that are required to achieve the potential

benefits of hybrid cloud.

The offering combines Microsoft software, consolidated guidance, and validated hardware

configurations with partner technology such as compute, network, and storage architectures.

This offering can help organizations adopt:

• End-to-end monitoring: Monitor infrastructure and applications across the enterprise

• Private cloud: Infrastructure spanning multiple physical locations to support the organization in

the event of catastrophic failure of the primary datacenter

• Hybrid cloud: Extending enterprise IaaS into the public cloud using the Windows Azure

technology platform, and extending fabric management across both private and public cloud to

form a hybrid cloud infrastructure

• Virtual desktop infrastructure: VDI solutions built using the Microsoft virtualization and

management platform

What Is Included?

• Strategy & Assessment: MCS architects and consultants assess an organization’s business needs

and existing infrastructure to define risks, needs, and areas of improvement.

• Architecture, Design and Planning: MCS consultants develop a strategy, design, and detailed plan

for deploying the new platform, allowing for the maximum potential benefits to an organization.

• Deployment: MCS consultants implement process and project management across stakeholders

and resources to mitigate risks and promote a rapid return on investment.

• Knowledge Transfer: MCS consultants provide ongoing training on the technology and solution to

IT staff throughout the project.

Microsoft Consulting Services

The Microsoft Services organization is a diverse group of technical architects, engineers, consultants,

and support professionals dedicated to delivering on Microsoft’s mission of empowering people and

businesses to realize their full potential at home, at work and on the go. We use our expertise across

the broad Microsoft portfolio—along with our extensive network of partners, our technical

communities, tools, diagnostics and the channels that connect us with our customers—to serve the

needs of millions around the globe. We are proud to bring decades of collective experience,

knowledge, and expertise that can help any customer use our technology to do great things.

Datacenter & CloudInfrastructure & Management

Flexible storage and networking offers diverse choices that deliver performance, efficiency, and innovation while taking advantage of industry-standard hardware

Continuous availability provides cost-effective, highly available services with protection against a wide range of failures and outages.

A complete cloud platform delivers a multi-tenant, highly secure virtualized environment with tools that can help ensure service level agreements (SLAs) are met, monitor resource use for reporting, and support self-service delivery.

Hybrid connectivity to multiple cloud services using a common identity and management framework for more secure and effective cross-premises connectivity.

Take Advantage of:

Strategy & Assessment

Enterprise Discovery & Rationalization

Datacenter & Cloud Infrastructure & Management

Datacenter & Cloud Consolidation & Migration

Datacenter & Cloud Operations

Datacenter & Cloud Automation

Datacenter & Cloud Transformation