Microsoft Announces New Cloud Opportunities for Partners

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Microsoft Announces New Cloud Opportunities

for Partners

PR Newswire

TORONTO, July 10, 2012

- New guidance, training and programs for Windows Server 2012 and Windows

Azure unveiled at Worldwide Partner Conference

TORONTO

,

July 10, 2012

/PRNewswire/ -- During the second day of Microsoft

Corp.'s annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), top executives from the

company announced new training, tools and other programs that enable

partners to deliver compelling new cloud services to their customers.

Satya Nadella, president of the Server and Tools Business, announced a

community technology preview (CTP) of new technologies that enable hosting

service providers to use their Windows Server data centers to deliver

capabilities consistent with services running in Windows Azure. In addition, he

announced a new program that gives partners guidance, training and software

tools to help customers transition from VMware's virtual infrastructure to

Microsoft's cloud.

"We've taken everything that we've learned from running data centers and

services at a global scale to usher in the new era of the cloud OS," Nadella said.

"Microsoft offers partners modern yet familiar technology to meet customer

demand on their path to the cloud."

With the new CTP, hosting service providers can offer customers turnkey cloud

services, including high-scale websites and virtual machine hosting with an

extensible self-service portal experience. These capabilities, which run on

Windows Server 2012 and Microsoft System Center 2012, will offer hosting

providers some of the same experiences and services recently announced by

Windows Azure. Go Daddy, the largest global Web hoster, is piloting these new

capabilities to deliver new cloud services for customers.

"Customers view Go Daddy as an IT partner with which they can grow," said

Scott Brown, vice president of Product Development – Hosting, at Go Daddy.

"These new capabilities give customers a seamless path to expanding their

online presence. In addition, the improved site performance, scalability and

availability all lead to a more enjoyable experience for our customers and their

visitors."

In addition, the new program announced on stage, Switch to Hyper-V, will allow

partners to grow their virtualization, private and hybrid cloud computing

practices while also helping customers improve IT agility at a lower cost with

Microsoft's cloud infrastructure.

Already, partners are making significant progress in helping their customers

with this transition. Microsoft Gold Certified Partner FyrSoft recently helped

Iowa

-

based Pella Corp. migrate nearly 100 percent of its VMware infrastructure

— nearly 700 VMware virtual machines — to Hyper-V, moving the company

beyond virtualization to a private cloud solution. With the Microsoft private

cloud,

Pella

has evolved its business while reducing IT costs and improving

efficiencies. Server and Tools Business Corporate Vice President Takeshi

Numoto further details partner opportunities in the era of the cloud OS on a

blog published today, and more information can be found here.

In addition, in a keynote that further reinforced how Microsoft is working with

its partners to transform businesses throughout the world, Microsoft Business

Solutions president Kirill Tatarinov highlighted the incredible opportunity in the

year ahead for partners focused on selling business solutions based on

Microsoft Dynamics.

"Microsoft brings together technologies in a way that no other company can

match," Tatarinov said. "Microsoft Dynamics takes full advantage of the

amazing innovations Microsoft is delivering, and we're actively supporting our

partners in developing and delivering a complete, modern, flexible and cloud-

based business solution to grow their businesses. There's never been a better

moment to be a Microsoft Dynamics partner."

With a renewed focus on building enterprise partnerships, Microsoft announced

new global independent software vendors that are choosing or extending their

solutions across Microsoft Dynamics. Companies such as Campus Management

Corp., Cenium Inc., Cincom Systems Inc., PROS Pricing and Technosoft that are

industry leaders in their markets are embracing the Microsoft Dynamics

solutions to expand their offerings and in some cases as the core foundation on

which to build their unique industry-focused solutions. For instance, global

hospitality and hotel solution organization Cenium is extending its Microsoft

Dynamics-based business offerings in areas such as property management,

procurement, human resources and point of sale; and Campus Management, a

leading provider of enterprise software solutions for higher education, is

planning to expand global reach by leveraging Microsoft Dynamics AX and

providing institutions of any size or complexity more choices when it comes to

student information systems and enterprise resource planning solutions.

Other keynotes included the following news and momentum updates from

Microsoft senior executives:

Thom Gruhler

, corporate vice president of Windows Phone Marketing, took the stage

to demo Windows Phone 8 and highlight that Windows Phone is now a true extension

of the Windows that 1 billion users worldwide know and use today.

Laura Ipsen

, corporate vice president of Worldwide Public Sector, provided an

overview of Microsoft's National Plan and citizenship efforts, including empowering

youth and driving societal change through the proliferation of Microsoft technology.

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