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Microsoft’s Private Cloud solution can help you realize key cloud computing benefits, including cross-platform support for multi-hypervisor environments, operating systems, and application frameworks. Read the following resources to see how the Microsoft cloud can help you build a private cloud in a heterogeneous environment.
Copy an on-premises virtual machine to Windows Azure
June 17, 2013
Read the guidance on building the scenario to copy virtual machines to Windows Azure from your on-premises servers, and thus help you integrate Windows Azure cloud capacity into your datacenter.