A headline theme for our next webinar will be ‘Microsoft Private Cloud 2.0’.

Private Cloud Application Platform

Two years ago I described an upcoming market that I initially defined as the Private Cloud Application Platform.

Recently Microsoft began prosecuting this space with their PCSS initiative, the Private Cloud Solutions Suite, bringing together a partner group that enables the PCAP I described, wrapping lots of value around the core MS suite of Hyper-V and System Centre.

This really starts to get the right ingredients for the real secret sauce to the Private Cloud story.

As we have all gathered, simply implementing yet more virtualization is hardly a new story for the enterprise data-centre so instead to really make it cook we need a full implementation of all aspects of the Cloud, internally, in particular both PaaS and SaaS – Platform and Software as a Service.

This combination of additional capabilities…