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Cloud computing from Microsoft

Empowering education through choice

MICROSOFT CLOUD Every education institution has distinct goals, standards and regulations, budget
OFFERINGS AT A GLANCE: pressures, security concerns, and technical legacies. No single approach addresses all
technology challenges, and solutions can rarely take a one-size-fits-all approach.

Infrastructure as a Service The movement toward cloud computing—technologies that enable organizations
(IaaS) to access Internet-based information, applications, and services—brings increased
With IaaS, organizations benefit from choice, flexibility, and capabilities to education IT departments. Cloud computing
on-demand computing and storage to complements traditional IT models in which software and data are hosted on desktop
host, scale, and manage applications and computers and servers.
services. Using Microsoft data centers
means scaling with ease and speed to This evolution gives education institutions the opportunity to balance the need to
meet the infrastructure needs of an deliver cost-effective services to students, teachers, faculty, and staff with important
entire district, university, or school. institutional demands, including important considerations such as data security,
authentication, and system management.
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
The Windows Azure platform consists WHY CLOUD COMPUTING?
of an operating system, a fully relational With cloud computing, your institution can get powerful software and computing
database, and consumable Web-based resources when and where you need them. It gives system managers more flexibility to
services. The platform offers a familiar manage scale and cost in ways that are largely invisible to users and that also account for
development experience, on-demand risk management, peak demand, and long-term planning needs. Education institutions
scalability, and reduced time-to-market can respond to their district’s, college’s, or university’s needs with more agility, and help
for your applications. ensure that students, teachers, faculty, parents, and staff have on-demand access to
essential information, using any device from anywhere. With cloud computing, you can:
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Lower costs
Microsoft hosts online services
Cloud computing gives academic organizations choices about how to manage costs
that provide your faculty, staff, and
according to their preferences—either as a capital expenditure or an operational
students with a consistent experience
expense. Cloud services that are developed hand in hand with on-premise server
across multiple devices. These
services and applications include
counterparts also deliver much-needed flexibility to educational institutions—enabling
Microsoft Live@edu, Microsoft lower costs to develop, scale, operate, and migrate systems that are distributed
Business Productivity Online Suite between the cloud and the data center.
(BPOS), Microsoft Exchange Hosted
Services, Microsoft Dynamics Reduce carbon footprint
CRM Online, and Microsoft Office Cloud services can help lower operating costs and environmental impact by pooling
Web Apps. computing resources across organizational boundaries, and enable the assigning and
reassigning of resources dynamically according to demand. Microsoft data centers are
Live@edu is a no-charge SaaS offering for designed to optimize resources and minimize energy consumption.
K–12 and higher education institutions
that provides students, teachers, faculty, Simplify IT management
staff, and alumni long-term, primary Cloud technology can help to manage spikes in user demand, and decrease the
e-mail addresses and other applications
cost and burden of anticipating and building excess IT infrastructure by enabling
they can use to collaborate and
communicate online. Microsoft regularly
on-demand scale, less ongoing maintenance, and shorter deployment time.
updates and adds to Live@edu services, Systems can be scaled up or down according to actual needs. In today’s connected
so your institution can continually expand world, students, teachers, faculty, and staff members need to move seamlessly from
the set of services you offer students the browser to the computer to a mobile device for flexible, yet unified, experiences.
and alumni.

www.microsoft.com/educloud
Cloud computing from microsoft
Empowering education through choice

Microsoft hosted services WHY MICROSOFT?


As one of the largest hosted services The Microsoft software-plus-services strategy is about the power of choice—a hybrid
providers in North America, Microsoft model of resources, both on premise and off, that enables you to move as much or as
offers a solid track record with its little as you want to the cloud. It’s not an all-or-nothing approach; instead, it enables
online solutions: you to flow workloads across your own—and outside—infrastructures. So you can
• Windows Live Hotmail, one of complement your existing IT assets with Web-based services. By having applications
the most popular messaging available across the Internet, you can help to ensure the experience is consistent
services worldwide, services across the computer, phone, and browser.
400 million accounts.
Microsoft invests heavily—more than U.S.$9 billion is targeted for 2010—in research
• Microsoft Office Live Meeting and development to help drive the technology further. With updates nearly every 90 days,
hosts 5 billion conference education institutions can quickly benefit from the latest technologies. They can also
minutes per year. use hosted services to try new technologies without investing significant financial
• Exchange Hosted Services resources before deciding to bring them in-house.
manages 2.4 million e-mail
messages each day. Financial Flexibility
Microsoft cloud services for education offers great programs like Microsoft
• Windows Live ID processes
1 billion authentications each day.
Live@edu at no cost to education accounts. Additionally, all our hosted
services offer greater financial flexibility in how you choose to fund your IT
• Bing serves up to 2 billion search resources—either as a capital expenditure or an operational expense. Your needs
queries a month. determine what to keep on premise and what to push to the cloud. When you use
resources in the cloud, it’s like turning on a light switch: You don’t necessarily
Microsoft serving education need to own the generator to get the service you need. When you reduce the
institutions need for on-premise resources, you reduce the maintenance and operational
overhead, including hardware and facility expenses. At the same time, you can
simplify and accelerate application updates and deployment.
Thousands of institutions in more
than 100 countries are providing Enterprise-class security, reliability, and compliance
Live@edu to millions of students
Recognizing that data in many forms is one of education’s most prized assets—
worldwide. These institutions include
from sensitive student information to critical research data at leading
the University System of Ohio, United
institutions—Microsoft has invested more than $2 billion in new data centers
States; the University of Queensland,
Australia; Alexandria University, around the world. These centers meet or exceed U.S. federal government and
Egypt; the Colorado Community international security body standards. With a global reach, commitment to
College System, United States; and security and privacy, and a 99.9 percent uptime service-level agreement with
the Ministry of Education of São round-the-clock support, education institutions have an enterprise-proven
Paulo, Brazil. technology infrastructure at their disposal that has been in development for more
than 20 years, 15 of which have offered services in the cloud.

Familiar, agile, and experienced


Microsoft provides an elastic infrastructure that enables your institution to address
needs as they arise. You have the flexibility to move services in—and out—of the
cloud. That means teachers, students, faculty, and staff can stay connected and
stay focused on delivering a quality education, with a familiar experience,
regardless of the device or location. Your developers can focus on coding, with
confidence that their work can be deployed efficiently because the infrastructure
is always available, interoperable, and open. The result is a more flexible,
responsive education institution.

This material is provided for informational purposes only. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied.
© 2010 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

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