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Microsoft Azure

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Microsoft Azure is a growing collection of integrated cloud services—analytics, computing, database, mobile, networking, storage, and web—for moving faster, achieving more, and saving money. With Azure, you get the freedom to build and deploy wherever you want, using the tools, applications, and frameworks of your choice. Additionally, Ingram Micro Cloud enables partners with the resources you need for better customer account management and faster deployment.

Ingram Micro Azure CSP Module

The latest release of the Ingram Micro Azure CSP module in Cloud Marketplace brings higher levels of billing detail, subscription management enhancements and automated resource deployment with preconfigured templates.

Increased Account Visibility

  • Clear view of itemized usage by customer or by workload
  • Partners can now reconcile billed items faster and bill customers more efficiently
    • View and reconcile detailed customer usage and statistics
    • Report filters with cost breakdowns
    • Explanation of charges by hours, GBs, users, nodes, etc.
    • Budget cap email alerts
    • Downloadable reports

Faster Resource Deployment

  • Partners can quickly and easily deploy basic, repeatable Azure solutions for customers directly from Next CP
  • Automated provisioning using wizard and templates
  • Subset of Cloud Orchestrator functionality for basic Azure workloads

Enhanced Subscription Management

  • Easier, more efficient management of multiple Azure CSP subscriptions under the same tenant
  • Tenant domain reuse
  • Filter and search by tags and resource groups in NextCP
  • Restore access to Azure Portal for direct access and management of Azure

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New Commerce Experience

Azure Connector supports next generation Azure offer enabling Monthly Calendar Billing, Detailed Invoicing, Azure Plan tiered pricing and end-customer cost management tools.

  • Azure New Commerce Experience - Focus on End-Customer Value Add Services
  • Current Front-end Margin replaced by Managed-Services Credit or Partner Earned Credit (based on AOBO status– Administrator on behalf of)
  • Modern Commerce Microsoft Partner and Customer Agreements
  • Azure Plan - Billing Container for Subscriptions
  • Calendar Month Billing Periods
  • Azure meter card rates globally in USD
  • Billing based on end-customer location currency
  • Cost management tools for end-customer (spend, budgets, alerts)

Azure RI - New Commerce Experience

New Commerce Experience - Azure Reserved Instances (RI) subscription enables invoicing of Reserved Instance SKU purchased within Azure Plan (NCE)

  • Azure NCE Reserved Instances subscription
  • Standard upfront margin (different from Partner Earned Credit for pay-as-you-go consumption)
  • Customers can purchase RI within their Azure portal (if self service option enabled within market place) or via Business Operations request
  • Cancellation of RI subscription does not cancel RI SKUs purchased (RI SKU cancellation has to be done separately)
  • Invoices of RI purchased during previous Calendar Month Billing Period
  • Only valid for Azure New Commerce Experience subscriptions (Azure CSP Legacy Subscriptions NOT supported)

Deploy anywhere with your choice of tools

Choose how you deploy Azure – connecting cloud and on-premises with consistent hybrid cloud capabilities and open source technologies – for maximum portability and value from your existing investments.

Protect your business with the most trusted cloud

Ninety percent of Fortune 500 companies trust the Microsoft Cloud, and so can you. Azure helps protect your assets through a rigorous methodology and focus on security, privacy, compliance, and transparency.

Accelerate app innovation

Build simple to complex projects within a consistent portal experience using deeply-integrated cloud services, so you can rapidly develop, deploy, and manage your apps.

Power decisions and apps with insights

Uncover business insights with advanced analytics and data services for both traditional and new data sources. Detect anomalies, predict behaviors, and recommend actions for your business.

Azure Reserved VM Instances (RI)

Significantly reduce costs—up to 72 percent compared to pay-as-you-go prices—with one-year or three-year terms on Windows and Linux virtual machines (VMs). When you combine the cost savings gained from Azure RIs with the added value of the Azure Hybrid Benefit, you can save up to 80 percent.

Contact Microsoft-Cloud@ingrammicro.com to purchase or if you have any questions.

  1. Who can purchase Azure services?

    Azure is intended for use by businesses to build cloud scale applications and services. However, individuals (i.e. consumers) may also purchase Azure services.

  2. What is the Azure SLA agreement?

    Azure has separate SLA’s for all of services that are generally available and not in preview. Please refer to our SLA page for the latest details

  3. Does Azure support IPv6?

    Microsoft has played a leading role in helping customers to smoothly transition from IPv4 to IPv6 for the past several years. To date, Microsoft has built IPv6 support into many of its products and solutions like Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 R2. Microsoft is committed to expanding the worldwide capabilities of the Internet through IPv6 and enabling a variety of valuable and exciting scenarios, including peer-to-peer and mobile applications. The foundational work to enable IPv6 in the Azure environment is well underway. However, we are unable to share a date when IPv6 support will be generally available at this time. For more information on IPv6 technologies and IPv6 support available in the Windows operating system today, see Microsoft’s IPv6 information site which includes business, technical, and developer resources: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/network/bb530961

  4. Can notifications be sent to a different email address other than the Account Owner email address associated with my account?

    Yes. If you would like to specify a different email address to receive notifications, please follow these directions:

    1. Go to My Account in the top right corner of the Azure homepage
    2. Click on Usage and Billing
    3. Click on the Profile tab
    4. In the right corner under Communication preferences, click here to update your email address in which you would like to receive notifications.
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