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4. Manage Costs Shift from capital expenditures to operational expenditures Greater Resource Agility Respond to business demands more effectively Greater Business Agility Focus on solving business problems, not on infrastructure issues Smaller Carbon Footprint Reduction in physical resources required on-premises

5. Self-service Service-oriented Scale out Failure resilient Consumption-based charge Elastic

7. Costs No orchestration High touch No workflow management Utilizing standard server-class hardware No orchestration High touch No workflow management Utilizing standard server-class hardwareManual Some orchestration Low touch Sophisticated workflow management Some cloud federation Utilizing specialized “high-scale” server hardware Some orchestration Low touch Sophisticated workflow management Some cloud federation Utilizing specialized “high-scale” server hardwareMechanized Full orchestration Zero touch Self-healing datacenters Full cloud federation Fully abstracted applications and server workloads Full orchestration Zero touch Self-healing datacenters Full cloud federation Fully abstracted applications and server workloads Fully Automated No orchestration High touch No workflow management Utilizing standard server-class hardware No orchestration High touch No workflow management Utilizing standard server-class hardwareManual Some orchestration Low touch Sophisticated workflow management Some cloud federation Utilizing specialized “high-scale” server hardware Some orchestration Low touch Sophisticated workflow management Some cloud federation Utilizing specialized “high-scale” server hardwareMechanized Full orchestration Zero touch Self-healing datacenters Full cloud federation Fully abstracted applications and server workloads Full orchestration Zero touch Self-healing datacenters Full cloud federation Fully abstracted applications and server workloads Fully Automated Time

8. Example of Datacenter Transformation Microsoft’s Datacenters Generation 4 Modular datacenter (future) Generation 1 Collocation Generation 2 Density Generation 3 Containers Scalability IT PAC (Pre-Assembled Components) Scalable and greener datacenters Rack Density and sustainability Server Capacity

9. Standardize on scalable server hardware Architect IT services for shared and abstracted compute resource pools Ramp up virtualization efforts and expertise Standardize on management platform for both physical and virtual Fine-tune processes around IT/people interaction Management

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