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Cloud Computing Trends and Business Benefits
We believe cloud computing represents the platform for the next generation of business. Cloud Computing is driving the transformation of the IT industry across the entire stack:
 | Hardware Model—Incredibly powerful and efficient hardware at a fraction of the cost. |
| Applications Model—Developers can rapidly create highly available, secure cloud applications. |
| Operations Model—Operations can keep cloud applications available 24x7 with “9-to-5” management. |
These trends can offer dramatic improvements in business agility, operational efficiency and IT maturity with significant cost savings. Customers recognize this and are adopting private and/or public cloud deployments for many usage scenarios.
How Microsoft Will Deliver Cloud Innovation
Microsoft is committed to bring in learning’s from building and running public cloud services (like Windows Azure) to the enterprise datacenter. We will use the following approaches to lead innovation in the cloud:
| Invest in the entire cloud stack—infrastructure, platforms, applications—with a service centric focus. |
| Ensure applications run consistently across on-premises (private cloud) and off-premises (public cloud). |
| Provide unified management for applications/services across on-premises and off- premises. |
| Enable workload federation to enable hybrid cloud models. |
| Similar flexibility and agility across cloud environments whether you’re using your own assets, working with service providers (hosting partners), or deploying into Microsoft’s datacenters (e.g. Windows Azure). |
Cloud computing
It joins the ranks of terms including: grid computing, utility computing,
virtualization, clustering, etc.
Cloud computing overlaps some of the concepts of distributed, grid and utility
computing, however it does have its own meaning if contextually used correctly.
The conceptual overlap is partly due to technology changes, usages and
implementations over the years.
Trends in usage of the terms from
Google searches shows Cloud
Computing is a relatively new term introduced in the past year. There has also
been a decline in general interest of Grid, Utility and Distributed computing.