All Microsoft Sites
Microsoft Logo
Get Connected icon Get Connected Vertical line divider
Horizontal Line
Susan Hauser blog:
Customer Conversations: The Cloud
  • Read the blog
Susan Hauser
Corporate Vice President, Microsoft
Microsoft IT transformation to business process, digitization of business
  • Watch the Podcast
Tony Scott
Corporate VP and CIO, Microsoft
The Cloud: Unlocking New Business Paradigms
  • Read the blog post
Guru Bharadwaj
Enterprise Strategy Advisor, Microsoft
Get Connected with Microsoft
  • Join the conversation

Microsoft Enterprise Solutions

At Microsoft, we’re committed to helping you innovate, compete, and grow. With solutions that span consumer and business technology and extend from the datacenter to the desktop to other devices and into the cloud, we offer you the flexibility to use the technology that’s right for your business and that your people will want use.

Customer Conversations: The Cloud

Susan Hauser image
Susan Hauser, Microsoft Corporate Vice President kicks off her blog series. This series will detail what Susan is hearing from Microsoft’s customers, partners, and field. Susan will also share her perspective on how collectively we can respond to changes in technology and evolving business requirements. This month Susan discusses what she is hearing from customers about the cloud.

Deploying Windows 8 Within Microsoft

Tony Scott
One of the roles of Microsoft IT is to be the first customer of Microsoft’s commercial products and services. As of mid-July we had more than 30,000 systems and nearly 30,000 employees running Windows 8 and IE10. This blog highlights three areas from Microsoft IT experience deploying Windows 8 and IE 10 Release Preview: support, security and user experience.

The Cloud: Unlocking New Business Paradigms

Guru Bharadwai
Guru Bharadwaj, Enterprise Strategic Advisor discusses as Enterprises look to leverage the value of cloud, it is imperative that they look beyond the traditional scale, security and public Vs. private approaches. The paradigm has to shift to Business Value, newer business models and opportunistic revenue streams created / enabled by The Cloud.

Microsoft IT’s Journey to the Cloud : An Application View

Microsoft IT (MSIT) currently uses mostly conventional on-premises products, but is moving rapidly to a mixed-use environment in which it utilizes some combination of on-premises software, software as a service (such as Microsoft® Exchange Online), and Windows Azure products. The Windows Azure platform provides a group of cloud technologies, each providing a specific service set for application developers, and both applications running in the cloud and on local systems can use it. Rather than an all-or-nothing approach, MSIT can leverage new cloud technologies and existing capabilities. Read about MSIT’s approach to applications in the cloud.

Global Nutrition Firm Gains Scalability, Cost Savings with Cloud to Host 100,000 Websites

Global nutrition star Herbalife wanted to increase its web presence as a way to expand its business. But for Herbalife, that meant supporting at least 100,000 websites for its independent distributors over the next few years. Read how they met this scalability issue as well as addressing consistency and time to market.Link Text: Read the case study
The Wire
Headline news for the enterprise
Subscribe
  • Yale Environment 360 writes"...Most of the world’s coral reefs will likely be subject to long-term degradation even if global warming is limited to 2 degrees Celsius, and as much as one-third of coral reef systems will likely be vulnerable to threats even under the most optimistic climate projections, a new study says...In an analysis of the potential effects of heat stress on coral reef systems worldwide under different climate change scenarios, a team of researchers found..." more
  • Lori MacVittie writes"...By kill the DMZ I don't mean physically dismantle the underlying network architecture supporting it – I mean logically. The DMZ was developed as a barrier between the scary and dangerous Internet and sensitive corporate data and applications. That barrier now must extend to inside the data center, to the LAN, where the assumption has long been devices and users accessing data center resources are inherently safe..." more
  • HBR writes"[by Jim Stikeleather]...We often forget about the human component in the excitement over data tools...We forget that it is not about the data; it is about our customers having a deep, engaging, insightful, meaningful conversation with us — if we only learn how to listen. So while money will be invested in software tools and hardware, let me suggest the human investment is more important. Here's how to put that insight into practice:" more
Contact Us Vertical line divider Support Vertical line divider Terms of Use Vertical line divider Trademarks Vertical line divider Privacy Statement
Licensing Information Vertical line divider Site Map Vertical line divider Manage your Profile