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Blueprint for Private Cloud Infrastructure as a Service

This article is a blueprint for the design of a Private Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) layer within an Enterprise IT organization to provide cloud like capabilities that enable the deployment, operations and management of a private cloud infrastructure.

The Four Pillars of Identity - Identity Management in the Age of Hybrid IT

This article defines and provides detailed conceptual information on the four fundamental pillars of identity that can be useful in creating a strategic direction for an identity infrastructure in your organization. 

Identity Infrastructure Capabilities - Managing Identity in the Age of Hybrid IT

This article provides detailed conceptual information on identity infrastructure capabilities specific to both on-premises and cloud computing that we at Microsoft are most often asked by our customers to implement.

A Non-Technical Overview of Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is currently the most over-hyped and least understood technological innovation since the advent of the Internet. The latter tremendously impacted businesses of all sizes globally, and the former has the potential to similarly and dramatically transform the business and economics of IT over the next few years.

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