Microsoft details plan to move its workload into Azure cloud
August 25, 2014
Grazed from TechRepublic. Author: James Sanders.
Microsoft’s internal IT department introduced a plan last week on what steps it’s taking to move the business processes into Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform.This move, as explained in the posting on the Microsoft TechNet Blogs website, is necessitated by Microsoft closing two data centers over the next 24 months, as well as allowing leases on others to expire.
In addition, thousands of existing servers will reach end of life over the next five years, which would require $200 million to replace. The migration to the new model of hybrid cloud infrastructure built on top of Microsoft Azure is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2018…
As detailed in a report published by Microsoft IT, the functions that will remain in on-premises data centers are:…
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