Tech: Microsoft Cloud Ecosystem Poster

This month Microsoft made available one of its famous posters that visually represents its entire Cloud Ecosystem and called indeed Cloud Ecosystem Poster: Microsoft Azure, Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2.

The document includes the key components of Microsoft Public Cloud offering alongside all the On-Premise Cloud technologies and is a strong visual aid to understand and compare all the different areas of the offerings.

This poster includes information about:

  • Microsoft Azure Services including Service Categories, Compute Services, Data Services, and App Services
  • System Center 2012 R2 including App Controller, Virtual Machine Manager, Operations Manager, Configuration Manager, Service Manager, Orchestrator, Data Protection Manager and Azure Pack
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 including Storage Spaces, Data Deduplication, Resilient File System, SMB Transparent Failover, Storage Quality of Service, Generation 2 Virtual Machines, Online VHDX Resize, Enhanced Session Mode, Live Migration, Failover Clustering, Cluster Shared Volumes, Scale-Out File Server, Shared Virtual Hard Disks, Hyper-V Extensible Switch, Remote Desktop Services, SMB Direct, SMB Multi-channel, and NIC Teaming