Microsoft Azure IaaS Solutions

Foreword

Every generation has its defining industries. For our generation, that defining industry is IT. We are creating opportunities and innovations in ways that are changing the rules and limits we once thought were fixed. Let’s take, for example, Moore’s law. We knew it was happening. There was no doubt about that. The cost of compute continued to decline precipitously. But what would that mean for the experiences that we could deliver? The ramifications of that progress over five or six years, or a decade, really stretches the imagination.

Today, the ability to create and deliver entire solutions in minutes, with fully scalable global infrastructure as a standard, has empowered a new generation of content creators and innovators. Anyone with a few dollars and a brilliant idea now has access to worldwide cutting-edge data platforms and compute arrays. We find ourselves at the precipice of a new wave of innovation, powered by the abstraction of infrastructure, and a new generation at the helm. Due to the very nature of the technology, the pace of change is faster than past technology revolutions—and we must capitalize quickly or be left behind, patching servers one at a time.

The public cloud has opened up incredible possibilities to accelerate growth and innovation in ways that have never been available up to this point, and the possibilities continue to grow. Hybrid and public cloud are now a core part of many organizations’ strategies. The true capability and power of the ...