The enterprise datacenter is undergoing a reinvention. The previous 10 years of datacenter operations will look nothing like the next 10 years, and much of this change is driven by a combination of new technologies as well as shifting governance and IT automation. To address increasing physical server proliferation, organizations have been aggressively introducing virtualization. While virtualization has helped reduce the number of physical servers in the datacenter, it has led to virtual server sprawl.

Enterprises and service providers want to realize the scalability, time to market, and cost benefits of cloud computing without having to rely solely on public clouds.

This paper discusses taking advantage of the private cloud capabilities of Hyper-V Cloud and the Windows Azure platform appliance. It explores the opportunities and benefits Private Cloud can bring to your business via a turnkey approach.