Microsoft IT Showcase delivers the best practices and experiences from Microsoft IT to provide an inside view into how the organization plans for, deploys, and manages its own enterprise solutions. The goal of sharing these best practices and cost saving scenarios is to help customers make decisions about how best to plan for, deploy, and manage Microsoft solutions in their own environment.

If you’re interested in how Microsoft IT has implemented Windows Azure across its global enterprise, be sure to check out this new IT Showcase content, which detail how Microsoft IT has deployed Windows Azure internally and the best practices and lessons the organization learned along the way.

• Implementing Support and Monitoring For a Business-Critical Application Migrated to Windows Azure
  To ensure ongoing application availability, IT needed to implement a reliable and comprehensive monitoring and support solution for BCWeb—a complex, business-critical application recently migrated to Windows Azure. This Technical Case Study describes how Microsoft IT accomplished this by combining the Windows Azure integration and monitoring capabilities with the Microsoft System Center Operations Manager management capabilities.
• How Microsoft IT Uses Windows Azure to Support Microsoft.com
  Windows Azure and Microsoft SQL Azure currently power the social features of Showcase, Cloud Power, and 50 other Microsoft.com properties through a multitenant web service known as the Social eXperience Platform (SXP). This TechNet Webcast reviews 15 months of production data, how the service grew, and the lessons we learned to provide insight into how the Windows Azure platform delivers performance, scalability, and elasticity while providing a solid return on investment.
• Architecting and Redeploying a Business Critical Application to Windows Azure
  This Technical Case Study and IT Pro Webcast describes how Microsoft IT Volume Licensing team architected and redeployed a business critical application, with full security review and approval, to Windows Azure. The resulting solution delivers lower cost and improved scalability, performance, and reliability.
  How Microsoft IT Deployed a Customer Facing Application to Windows Azure in Six Weeks
  Read this Technical Case Study to learn how the Microsoft IT Volume Licensing team gained experience with Windows Azure by focusing on a straightforward, isolated customer-facing application that allowed them to architect and redeploy to Windows Azure in six weeks with immediate cost savings.
• Architecting and Redeploying a Business Critical Application to Windows Azure
  Watch this TechNet Webcast to learn how the Microsoft IT Volume Licensing team architected and redeployed a business critical application, with full security review and approval, to Windows Azure. The resulting solution delivers lower cost and improved scalability, performance, and reliability.
• Reviewing and Implementing Key Support and Monitoring Requirements for a Business Critical Windows Azure and SQL Azure Application
  Watch this TechNet Webcast to learn how the Microsoft IT Volume Licensing team reviewed and implemented key support and monitoring requirements for a business-critical application migrated to Windows Azure and Microsoft SQL Azure.

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