A video capture of Microsoft CVP Brad Anderson and Jeff Wettlaufer from Microsoft's security and management team discussing Hyper-V Cloud scheme
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Microsoft (www.microsoft.com) announced last week it has released Hyper-V Cloud scheme, a new group of tools designed for businesses that are looking to generate their own Windows Server-based private cloud infrastructures.
This is one of a few private cloud initiatives Microsoft has announced within the past year, following the launch of Windows Azure Platform Appliance.
Windows Azure lets service providers and large customers operate the Azure development and hosting platform as a private cloud from their own data centers so that developers are able to create new applications which they can run in the cloud.
Focused on the infrastructure as a service component of the private cloud, Hyper-V is designed to offer tools to accelerate private cloud deployments.
For instance, there are deployment guides based on previous work done by Microsoft Consulting Services that instruct users on how to use different combinations of hardware and software for the cloud deployment.
The guides include modules that offer pointers on architecture, deployment, operations, project validation and project planning.
Users can choose from 70 global service providers that offer hosted versions of Microsoft-based infrastructures.
The Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track program includes pre-configured combinations of software and hardware that have been prepared by Microsoft and partners such as Dell, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP and IBM to use for private cloud rollouts.
“Many of our customers have told us they want the benefits of cloud-computing — fast deployment, increased agility, lower costs — but with tight control over things like physical infrastructure and security policies,” says Brad Anderson, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s management and security division. “Our new private cloud offerings fulfill that need at the infrastructure level, while providing a clear migration path to cloud services at the platform level.”
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