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Customer Conversations: The Cloud
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Susan Hauser
Corporate Vice President, Microsoft
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Tony Scott
Corporate VP and CIO, Microsoft
The Cloud: Unlocking New Business Paradigms
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Enterprise Strategy Advisor, Microsoft
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Customer Conversations: The Cloud

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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

Digitizing the Executive Suite: Executive Perspective

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Digitizing the executive suite using enabling technology drives enhanced collaboration, reduces process friction, enables real-time access to data and insight that leads to an environment that is more fluid and responsive to the strategic priorities of the business.
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