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Microsoft poster details Azure, System Center, and Server 2012 R2 capabilities

Microsoft released a new poster that could make a nice addition to your server room or cubicle wall. It covers the cloud ecosystem options with Microsoft Azure and on-premise offerings like System Center 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2012 R2.

The poster summarizes different categories like storage, virtualization, file services, network services, and more. It helps give an understanding of the different roles between Azure, SCCM, Windows Intune, and other capabilities.

This document provides a visual reference for understanding key Microsoft private cloud and on-premises cloud technologies. This poster includes information about:

  • Microsoft Azure Services including Service Categories, Compute Services, Data Services, and App Services
  • System Center 2012 R2 including App Controller, Virtual Machine Manager, Operations Manager, Configuration Manager, Service Manager, Orchestrator, Data Protection Manager and Azure Pack
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 including Storage Spaces, Data Deduplication, Resilient File System, SMB Transparent Failover, Storage Quality of Service, Generation 2 Virtual Machines, Online VHDX Resize, Enhanced Session Mode, Live Migration, Failover Clustering, Cluster Shared Volumes, Scale-Out File Server, Shared Virtual Hard Disks, Hyper-V Extensible Switch, Remote Desktop Services, SMB Direct, SMB Multi-channel, and NIC Teaming

You can download the full-size poster as a PDF from the Microsoft Download Center.

For more posters from Microsoft and other vendors, see this previous post: Posters for the IT Pro.