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whitepaper Siemens Expands Software Delivery Service, Significantly Reduces TCO2009-11-01 Microsoft
  Siemens - a global powerhouse in electronics and electrical engineering, operating in the industry, energy and healthcare sectors - has built a worldwide reputation for innovation and technical achievement. Siemens IT Solutions and Services developed a system for remote service of more than 80,000 devices worldwide. An additional service enables its users to distribute software packages to devices spread around the globe through virtual private network connections. To make these software updates and installations more efficient, reduce costs, and deliver more complex software packages to more devices, Siemens is now able to use the Windows Azure platform for devices directly connected to the Internet. The company now can dynamically scale its global software distribution, while reducing costs, enhancing services, and avoiding significant new capital investment.

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whitepaper Leading Integration Company Speeds to Market With Cloud-to-Cloud Interoperation2009-11-01 Microsoft
  Cast Iron Systems specializes in helping organizations connect Internet-hosted (cloud) applications with on-premises applications. When Microsoft announced the Windows Azure platform, Cast Iron set out to enhance its Cast Iron Integration Solution with Windows Azure platform connectivity. Using the Service Bus and Access Control Service, Cast Iron created the needed connectors in just one day. Faster time-to-market enabled Cast Iron to supply a timely solution to an urgent need. Its enhanced product can help customers host applications off-premises without concerns about interoperability with on-premises data. With the Cast Iron Integration Solution, companies can now use application data wherever it resides and scale workloads without worrying about overloading the communications infrastructure.

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whitepaper Interactive Solution Provider Gains Agility, Conserves Costs With Hosted Services2009-11-01 Microsoft
  Archetype, an interactive technology solution provider, developed the Archetype Media Platform (AMP), which includes the AMP Editor, AMP Portal, AMP Manager, and AMP Analytics applications. The firm faced common challenges with scalability, time-consuming deployments, and high entry costs for its customers. Archetype migrated its existing AMP solution to the Windows Azure platform and developed additional components specifically to take advantage of the new system. The firm found it easy to develop for Windows Azure - which facilitates expeditious, direct deployment to the cloud through the Windows Azure portal - and it anticipates greater business and development agility as a result, promoting cost savings and more-timely response to customer needs.   
whitepaper Software Services Provider Delivers Cost-Effective E-Government Solution2009-11-01 Microsoft
  Persistent Systems provides software development services that help enterprises and public sector customers enhance their offerings. One of the company's primary offerings is an e-government solution that helps governments and agencies deliver services and interact with constituents electronically. However, the company's ability to promote the solution was often limited by the IT infrastructure capacity of governments in developing regions. Persistent Systems needed a way to deliver its solution without requiring local governments to invest in new IT infrastructure and personnel. The company used the Windows Azure platform to deliver its e-governance applications on the Internet through a Microsoft data center. Now Persistent Systems can offer its e-government solution in a high-availability environment while reducing capital and maintenance costs for itself and its customers.

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whitepaper Microsoft IT Moves Auction Tool to the Cloud, Makes It Easier for Employees to Donate2009-11-01 Microsoft
  Microsoft IT runs an online auction to raise funds for United Way during Microsoft's annual Giving Campaign. Employees donate and bid on items throughout the campaign using an online auction tool created by Microsoft IT. In the last Giving Campaign, Microsoft IT migrated the auction tool to the Windows Azure platform so that the tool could scale to meet the demands of campaign traffic.

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whitepaper Ticket Seller Finds Ideal Business Solution in Hosted Computing Platform2009-11-01 Microsoft
  New Zealand - based TicketDirect International has grown into a major ticketing service for venues in Australia and New Zealand. The company's focus on excellent customer service led it to look for a better way to handle peak system loads during major event ticket sales. Working with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Intergen, TicketDirect has begun redesigning its system to work from a "Cloud computing" environment using the Windows Azure platform. The company is rebuilding its customer application as a Windows Azure application and migrating its data to a Microsoft SQL Azure database. By moving to an off-premises, cloud solution, TicketDirect is able to easily and cost-efficiently scale its computing resources in response to real-time demand while simultaneously giving up the cost of maintaining its own hardware.

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whitepaper Worldwide News Provider Creates New Content Channels With Hosted Computing2009-11-01 Microsoft
  The Associated Press (AP) is the world's largest news organization, with bureaus in 97 countries. On average, more than half the world's population sees news from AP on a given day. AP wanted to broaden its reach by encouraging developers to incorporate AP content into their applications. Using the Microsoft-hosted Windows Azure platform, AP created a highly scalable solution that simplifies capacity planning and creates new business opportunities.

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whitepaper Combinatorial Auction Provider Scales Up Quickly, Saves Costs With Cloud Services2009-11-01 Microsoft
  Tradeslot specializes in designing and building large scale business-to-business and government-to-Business (G2B) auctions platforms; its partner company, Adslot, uses the same auction platform to auction online advertising space. The companies use computation-heavy combinatorial auction algorithms to manage their complex conditional bid processes. However, with a lack of compute power with its existing infrastructure, the companies found it necessary to manually add constraints to auctions. In addition, the companies wanted to reduce capital costs and IT resources required to set up new server hardware for customers.   
whitepaper Software Firm Launches Business Contract Service With Lean Staff, Low Investment2009-11-01 Microsoft
  Sopima, creator of an online solution for managing business contract life cycles, needed to minimize its capital investment to deliver a viable offering. It also wanted to offer an affordable monthly subscription service to gain new customers quickly. Using the Windows Azure platform, the company hosts its application in Microsoft data centers, providing customers with fast response times and high scalability. With the solution, Sopima has removed barriers that would have otherwise prohibited its entry into competitive markets. The company limited its investment in infrastructure and can focus on development rather than hardware administration. Sopima estimates that, without the Windows Azure platform, it would have had to hire additional full-time staff members at an annual cost of approximately U.S.$500,000.

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whitepaper Software Developer Launches Highly Scalable Web Site Platform, Minimizes Costs2009-11-01 Microsoft
  Sitemasher, developer of an innovative platform for building and managing Web sites, wanted to help Web professionals create scalable, data-driven Web sites faster, and at lower cost. The company also needed to lower its own systems infrastructure costs. Sitemasher used the Windows Azure platform to offer its application as a hosted service, delivering an efficient, highly available, and highly scalable Web site development and hosting environment to its customers. By hosting its application on Windows Azure through Microsoft data centers, the company has minimized infrastructure costs and reduced ongoing maintenance. Finally, with no data centers of its own to manage, Sitemasher will refocus the time its development staff spent maintaining servers to improving and expanding the Sitemasher application, representing a time savings of approximately 20 percent.

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