Introduction to the Microsoft Private Cloud

View this presentation to learn how using technologies and products from Microsoft can help your business build, deploy, and maintain a private cloud. We will discuss Microsoft’s approach to the private cloud, and provide an overview of the key components that are a part of this vision. We will look in-depth at the four components including application management, cross platform management, how to build a cloud on your terms and create a foundation for the future of your organization. As well as discussing the benefits and drivers to adopting cloud technologies, we will explore the barriers to adoption as well.

This module explains how enterprise data centers are evolving toward highly virtualized infrastructures, and how System Center 2012 gives you a set of tools to provision infrastructure resources and manages your physical and virtual environment. This module will show how to use System Center to provision a private cloud, and explain how System Center 2012 gives you a set of tools to configure and deploy infrastructure components including compute, storage, network, and cluster resources; enabling you to deliver IT as a Service. We will discuss advanced topics such as bare-metal deployment of compute resources, optimizing storage components, and creating logical networks. Thus showing how this builds a foundation to provide automated service delivery, and an improved self-service experience for your users. Further, we will review how System Center 2012 provides tools to monitor and operate infrastructure components, enabling you to optimize the health of your infrastructure.

This module will explain how applications are deployed and managed in the Microsoft private cloud. We will explain the process of enterprise application management, and how the new capabilities in System Center 2012 can be used to deploy applications as services with automation. The lifecycle between the deployment and operation of applications will be explained, along with how System Center 2012 components enable these new approaches in application provisioning. You will learn how to use the new tools in System Center 2012 to manage the underlying resources of an application using the service template model, and how to delegate control and access to those templates. Further, we will show you how to achieve predictable application service delivery, and show how to keep your applications running healthy by improving the performance and monitoring of them with the System Center product.