Microsoft has announced the Cloud Platform System (CPS), a mix of Microsoft Azure, Office 365 and Microsoft Dynamics offering a cloud system that can be used by all kinds of firms in all kinds of industries, according to the firm.
The Microsoft CPS, or 'cloud in a box', comprises Dell hardware with Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2 and Windows Azure Pack.
"The enterprises of today and tomorrow demand a cloud platform that is reliable, scalable and flexible," said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
"With more than 80 percent of the Fortune 500 on the Microsoft cloud, we are delivering the industry's most complete cloud for every business, every industry and every geography."
CPS scales from a single rack to up to four racks and is optimised for infrastructure-as-a-service for Windows and Linux and platform-as-a-service style deployments, Microsoft said.
It will be released next month, and is described as a collaboration between Microsoft and Dell to create a customer-focused system.
"As we bring CPS to market, we have the confidence to not only stand behind our solution, but to proudly stand in front of it. When customers encounter issues in a CPS environment, there is one number to call and that is ours," Microsoft said.
"Of course if the issue lies in hardware, we will work with Dell to resolve it, but you as a customer are not burdened with figuring out who the responsible party is to resolve your problem."
CPS can be installed at increments of one to four racks. A single rack offers 512 cores across 32 servers, 8TB of RAM with 256GB per server, 282TB of usable storage, 1360Gbps of internal rack connectivity, 560Gbps of inter-rack connectivity and as much as 60Gbps connectivity to the external world. Each rack can support some 2,000 virtual machines.
Microsoft also announced increased Azure availability, and said that by the end of this year it would be in 19 locations, more than twice as many as any rival provider. The firm has already questioned the performance of smaller, niche providers.
The enterprise standard G Series of virtual machines and storage systems were also announced, and Microsoft said that they offer as much as 448GB RAM and 6.5TB of local SSD storage.
The firm called this storage and memory "massive" and added that Intel Xeon processors offer "unparalleled computational performance". More information, such as availability, is expected at a later date.
Microsoft said that start-ups and smaller outfits account for 40 percent of Azure customers, and that it is making the system more open to encourage wider use through the Azure Marketplace.
Linux-based CoreOS has been added to the Marketplace, and enterprise and data management software Cloudera is expected to have Azure certification within the year.
"Our ecosystem is the backbone of our cloud platform, and our embracing of open source technologies is at the heart," said Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of cloud and enterprise at Microsoft.
"By helping to create an open platform powered by choice and flexibility, we are enabling the enterprises and developers of today and tomorrow to connect with each other and create new business opportunities in the mobile-first, cloud-first world."
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