Identify and pursue your SPLA compete opportunities.
Hyper-V Private Clouds &
Competing Against VMware
Welcome to the VMware Compete Module on Microsoft Hosting University. Within these pages and links, we will provide an overview of the resources available for internal Microsoft employees and external service providers to build and sell private cloud offers on Hyper-V.
MAIN SECTIONS
Excited and Ready to Engage? Take these Next Steps to Build Private Clouds on Microsoft!
- Build Your Private Cloud Service Practice
- Get Virtualization Competency and Systems Management Competency
- Check out the Hyper-V Accelerate Offers
- Get Ready – Sales / Technical
- Sell and Deploy
Tools and Resources
Microsoft is collaborating with Dell, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM, NEC, NetApp and Cisco to deliver a broad choice of pre-defined, validated configurations for private cloud deployments.
Hyper-V Cloud Service Provider Program
A group of more than 70 service providers around the world offering infrastructure as a finished, fully-hosted service built on Microsoft’s technology that customers can use to implement a private cloud.
Microsoft Private Cloud Whitepaper
In this whitepaper, we compare private cloud solutions from Microsoft and VMware. We do this by defining private cloud using industry standard concepts, explain the Microsoft products needed to create a Microsoft private cloud solution and then define the technology benefits a Microsoft private cloud solution provides. We also examine how the licensing models differ between Microsoft and VMware and, in particular, how those licensing models will impact the ROI of investments you are making today and long into the future.
Hyper-V Cloud Deployment Guides
To tie it all together, Microsoft is making significant investments to help customers and partners fund assessments, proofs-of-concept, and production deployments.
Microsoft WPC 2011 Private Cloud Presentation
In this presentation given at the World Partner conference, Microsoft shared with you the top reasons why service providers are choosing Hyper-V over VMware for building their private clouds. Included is an overview of resources available for service providers to build and sell private cloud offers on Hyper-V.
Hyper-V Cloud & DDC Toolkit Testimonial
Terremark, an industry leader in managed services, extends cloud based Virtual Disaster Recovery (VDR) with Microsoft Hyper-V Cloud and Dynamic Data Center Toolkit. Powered by Microsoft System Center, Hyper-v and Website Panel, Terremark has a complete solution for their customer, both enterprises and Government agencies.