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Matt DeaconChief Architectural AdvisorDeveloper & Platform GroupMicrosoft Ltd

What ISVs should know about hosting in the cloud?

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The Cloud Maturity Model

Innocence Dawning Awakened• Web hosted• Thin client • Always Connected• Multi-tenanted• No software install• End of upgrades• Pay as you go

• No “standard” customer• The perpetual eval• Commercial models

• OpEx v CapEx• Data Lock-In• Versioning•The issues ... • The “outage”• The security issue • The data loss

• The SLA

• Customer choice• Customer as a Partner• Flexible commercial model

• Open Data model• Flexible partitioning• SLA Boundaries• Hoster as a Service• Hoster as a Partner

Links• Software+Service Self Assessment tool– www.splussready.com

• Software+Service Roadmap for ISVs– www.microsoft.com/hosting/ISV/default.msp

• Software+Service Incubation program– www.microsoft.com/hosting/programs/

incubationcenter.mspx• Bizspark– http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark

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