The Azure Platform. Common Sense Webinar

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Dustin Hicks

duhicks@microsoft.com

Juan De Abreu

juan@getcs.com210-807-3552

non-elastic IT Inefficiencies

TIME

IT R

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Actual Load

Allocated IT resources

“Waste“ of resources

“Under-supply“ of resources

Fixed cost of IT resources

Load Forecast

Barrier forinnovations

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Managed for You

Managed by You

On-Premise

Servers

Infrastructure

As A Service

Platform As

A Service

Software

As A

Service

Applications

Runtimes

Database

Operating System

Virtualization

Server

Storage

Networking

Affordable On-Demand IT resources with less

Management

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Elasticity in the Azure Platform

Actual Load

Allocated IT

capacities

Reduction of initial

investments

Reduction of “over-supply“

No “under-supply“

Possible reduction of IT-capacities

in case of reduced load

Time

IT C

AP

AC

ITY

Load Forecast

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450 million active accounts

Over 600 million unique usersOver 6 million songs in the

catalog

23 million subscribers

14 billion ads per month

2 billion unique calls per year

10 billion messages processed daily

500 million active Windows Live IDs

Over 3 billion WW queries each month

Over 10,000 customers

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We’re building to run your services

12+ Carrier-Class Mega Data Centers Supporting Enterprise Solutions

Focus on Security (Cybertrust Certification, SAS 70, ISO 27001, US + EU Safe Harbor and ITAR)

2nd largest network in the world (Microsoft is #3 on the Knodes Index – The other 9 Top 10 are Telecom Carriers)

Localized in 50 countries and 99 languages

Gen 3 Data Centers Online in Dublin and Chicago

Typically size of 12 football fields under one roof

Focus on Environmental Sustainability

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MICROSOFT CONFIDENTIAL Page 8

Windows Azure is an internet-scale cloud services platform hosted in Microsoft data centers around the

world, proving a simple, reliable and powerful platform for the creation of web applications and

services.

The Windows Azure Platform

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A few Azure Compute Scenarios

Usage

Co

mp

ute

Time

Average

Inactivity

Period

“On and Off “

• On & off workloads (e.g. batch job)

• Over provisioned capacity is wasted

• Time to market can be cumbersome

Co

mp

ute

Time

“Unpredictable Bursting“

Average Usage

• Unexpected/unplanned peak in demand

• Sudden spike impacts performance

• Can’t over provision for extreme cases

Average UsageCo

mp

ute

Time

“Growing Fast“

• Successful services needs to grow/scale

• Keeping up w/ growth is big IT challenge

• Complex lead time for deployment

Co

mp

ute

Time

Average Usage

“Predictable Bursting“

• Services with micro seasonality trends

• Peaks due to periodic increased demand

• IT complexity and wasted capacity

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Microsoft

Datacenter

Networking &

Application

Services

The Fabric

hypervisor

VMs

AzureDevices

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ServicePackage

ServiceConfiguration

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MICROSOFT CONFIDENTIAL Page 12

=Fabric Agent

Dave Cutler

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MICROSOFT CONFIDENTIAL Page 13

What is in a Compute Node?

Windows Azure Compute NodeRoot Operating

System

Customer Virtual

Machine

Hypervisor

Azure

Fabric Controller

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MICROSOFT CONFIDENTIAL Page 14

Dustin HicksAzure Technology Specialist

duhicks@microsoft.com

Juan De AbreuVP – Delivery Director

juan@getcs.com

blog.getcs.com

210-807-3552

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