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Pierre Roman Technical Evangelist – Microsoft Canada
Pierre Roman
Technical Evangelist – Microsoft Canada
Web App Data
Compute Storage Network
LOB app
LOB app
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App owner
DatacenterAdmin
Web App Data
The DevOps disconnect
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Unified application monitoring
StorageCompute Network
StorageCompute
Windows Azure
System Center Management Pack for Windows Azure
System Center Advisor
System Center Global Service Monitor
Deep .NET application insight
New in Windows 2012 R2:Deep Java application
insight
Datacenter Admin
Deep application insight for .NET applications
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datacenter
Overcoming the DevOps disconnect
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• Comprehensive monitoring
• Deep application
diagnostics
• Quick isolation
of root cause with
line-of-code level insight
• Process and tool-driven
collaboration
“It’s great for us that Visual
Studio 2012 Lab Manager
leverages Systems Center 2012
Virtual Machine Manager,
which is a full private cloud
management solution.
Deployment of applications
such as SQL Server are now
fully automated through
application templates.”
—Joe Chiu, Software Development Engineer,
Xbox Live, Microsoft Corporation
(in the context of Xbox Live being able to
reduce release cycles from months to days)
App Owner
Datacenter Admin
App Owner
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Revisiting the application lifecycle
Build the application (dev/test)
Update/scale application
Create blueprint and deploy application
Ensure application healthAgile dev/test with centralized IT control using Windows Azure
Simplify provisioning with service templates
Deliver hybrid applications for on-demand scale
Comprehensive application insight with System Center
DevOps productivity
App Owner
Datacenter Admin
Appendix
Case study: Telenor
“We needed to take a new approach and Windows Azure Virtual Machines provided the right solution for our business.”- Andreas Hogberg, Telenor
Situation:
Telenor needed to upgrade from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2013. But with 18 business units across 12 countries, the project would have required a huge infrastructure just for testing. Until Windows Azure.
Benefits:
Saved 70 percent on test, development and demo that could be turned off when finished.
Accessed limitless dev/test resources.
Built a SharePoint farm in days, not weeks.
Telecommunications company uses Windows Azure for development and testing
Case study: Progel
“System Center is necessary to achieve the goals we set for ourselves and our customers; we don’t deploy a virtualized environment without it.”- Daniele Grandini, IT Executive, Progel
Situation:
Progel upgraded to Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 because it needed to automate fabric manage-ment tasks and simplify how it created and managed private clouds.
Benefits:
Increased business agility.
Improved customer service.
Reduced power consumption.
IT firm uses cloud management solution to boost agility, customer service
Case study: DenizBank
“With System Center 2012 … we can load-balance cloud resources to deliver maximum performance and avert application failures.”
- Murat Demirkiran, DenizBank, Turkey
Situation:
DenizBank needed to deploy IT faster and ensure availability and performance, so it configured virtualized servers as a private cloud, from which it can deliver IT as a service.
Benefits:
Saved U.S.$7 million on server costs.
Avoided $12 million datacenter costs.
Reduced IT staff costs by 20 percent.
DevOps insight improves application performance
Case study: Xerox
“By using System Center 2012 SP1, our developers are far more effective and can get more done. This is improving efficiency and productivity by approximately 40 percent.”- Ashley Vail, Director of Engineering, India Development
Situation:
The Xerox developers in India needed to replicate the US-based production environment so it deployed a dev/test environment using Windows Server, System Center, and Visual Studio.
Benefits:
Improved software quality.
Boosted developer productivity.
Reduced staff attrition by 34 percent.
Xerox improves software quality, cuts costs by linking development and operations
