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In a joint effort between Microsoft product development and Microsoft Services, the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Product Line Architecture (PLA) has been created to help organizations develop and implement private cloud infrastructures quickly while reducing complexity and risk. The IaaS PLA utilizes...

Trying to decide which sessions to attend at the 2013 Microsoft Management Summit ?  There are a lot of great options this year, and here are ten reasons we think you should check out the sessions hosted by the authors of the Building Clouds blog… You’ll get to learn all about the Fundamentals of...

If you haven’t heard about Azure Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks , then you’re in for a treat. This new service, which is currently in Customer Preview mode, allows you to put virtual machines on the Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering. This means that you will be able to take advantage...

We’ve written several articles on this blog differentiating between virtualized-only and private cloud infrastructures, so I won’t detail those differences again, but in this post, I wanted to address the topic of “workloads,” how it’s likely that not all of the workloads in your environment will be...

The post titled the Cloud is Not Virtualization from almost couple years ago on this blog stated that for an IT solution to be called a “cloud” solution, it needed to enable the “essential characteristics” of cloud computing, as defined in The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing . For those unaware, those...

Have you been hearing a lot about the cloud but you’re not sure what it’s about? Does this cloud stuff sound like marketing and hype to you? Are there any real, substantive differences between cloud computing and what you’re doing now in your datacenters? What about security – how does cloud computing...

Infrastructure as a Service, or IaaS is the industry term used to describe the capability to provide computing infrastructure resources in a well-defined manner, similar to what is seen with public utilities. These resources include server resources that provide compute capability, network resources...

In defining Infrastructure as a Service we need to drill into specific characteristics that a cloud platform provider must provide to be considered Infrastructure as a Service. This has been no easy task as nearly every cloud platform provider has recently promoted features and services designed to address...

Hello Cloud fans! It gives me great pleasure to kick off a new series of blogs about Windows Server 8 as a cloud-optimized OS! We've been operating in silent mode till now, with limited public exposure (mainly at \\BUILD ) but now it's time to start sharing the great stuff with you. It's going to be...

As I made clear in my two talks at TechDays 2012 in Belgium this week, private cloud computing is all about providing services to the consumers of your cloud infrastructure. This service providers approach is critical since in the future you, as a member of your corporate IT department, will be in direct...

Private Cloud is all about being a service provider and one of the core services you’ll want to provide is Infrastructure as a Service (commonly known as IaaS). Infrastructure as a Service, or IaaS is the industry term used to describe the capability to provide computing infrastructure resources in a...