When the public cloud isn't right for you, but you still want to achieve the cost, speed and scalability benefits cloud offers, a private on-premise solution could be the answer.

It's a great starting point on your cloud journey. You'll enjoy the peace of mind of keeping your IT on site, plus maximum control, reduced operational risk and the supreme efficiency that comes from fully optimizing your existing hardware investments.

Generate the big benefits you want

• Elasticity
  Self-service, automation and private cloud infrastructure help you scale resources as your business demands.
• IT agility
  IT responds faster to changing business conditions, and you accelerate time-to-market.
• Performance flexibility
  Ride the peaks and troughs in business activity and minimize budget shocks by scaling PaaS as you need.
• Nurture growth
  The Avanade Solution offers a cost-effective platform to support business evolution. You'll share costs and resources and take your first step to cloud.

How do we do it?

We've built many private cloud solutions for our clients using Microsoft Hyper-V to effect wide scale virtualization. Microsoft's Hyper-V Cloud is based on Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V. System Center and automation technologies, plus self-serve options are available to give you the level of management and control you need to fully optimize your IT.

By combining Microsoft's Hyper-V Cloud solution with our own systems integration and business consultancy skills you'll have a private on-premise cloud that's built with:

• Best-practice principles - using Hyper-V Cloud Deployment Guides and partners.
• Fast deployment - with the option to use a pre-configured, validated private cloud configuration with combined hardware and software solutions based on proven reference architecture.
• On-going support - we'll help you select a service partner to deliver ongoing technical support.