At MMS, Microsoft will be demonstrating a private cloud management stack that builds on virtualization and fully enables this new vision of private cloud management.

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Independent IT solutions provider Champion Solutions Group is focused on cloud and virtualization services as well as data management solutions that reduce costs, increase productivity, and mitigate risks.

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For Microsoft customers, the great news is that we acknowledged this shift several years ago and began laying the foundation for it with our investments in public cloud offerings such as Windows Azure and by integrating private cloud technologies into our existing Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V virtualization and System Center IT management offerings.

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Using open source virtualization technologies like KVM and Xen, ULAP is managed with the EUCALYPTUS and OpenStack cloud management platforms.

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The customers include Lionbridge, Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts (LIPA), and EmpireCLS Worldwide Chauffered Services, and the post focuses on how they use a combination of Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V server virtualization and System Center management tools to optimize their IT infrastructure and experience the benefits cloud computing has to offer.

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