The Power of DNN with The Reach of Microsoft What's in the cloud? Everything these days, including DNN's CMS, Evoq Content. Evoq Content (formerly known as DotNetNuke Professional), and their new Evoq Social (social community platform) are now both offered as turn-key cloud solutions and promise performance, scalability (elastic cloud), reliability and redundancy. While DNN's solutions being offered in the cloud is new, their cloud provider is not. What does this mean for you? The first and biggest benefit is that it's "instant on." Well, maybe not completely instant, but all you do is purchase or order one of the DNN cloud solutions from a reseller like Clarity Ventures (a Top 5 Gold Certified DNN Partner), and the solution is spun up for you in as little as 45 seconds! That means no installation, no servers, no more manually performed updates and it comes with an SLA (more on that later). As with all good cloud solutions, it's elastic, meaning that as you need more horse power, you simply pay for another server and DNN will spin up another instance for you. Who's Cloud is it Anyway? Great question! Azure is Microsoft's cloud. That's right. Several years ago, DNN partnered with Microsoft to build the most powerful .NET Cloud-based CMS offering in the world. It took more than a year to build out all the technology needed to make this seamless for their clients, but they did it. Now you get the benefits of the DNN CMS platform from DNN, but the 24x7x365, world-class technical support. What Kind of Coverage Can My Cloud Have? Since you'll be on Microsoft's Azure cloud, you have access to a world-class data center, which includes: 8 major data center regions 24 CDN locations globally Local and geo-replication Redundant platform services and automated failover Service isolation over virtualized computing and network How Can I Manage the Platform? Nothing changes with the CMS admin UI, except for the addition of the Cloud Management drop-down. The same great header-style control you've always enjoyed and already know—are still there when you log in. This means that for your content editors, nothing changes. The big difference is for the IT staff. DNN provides them with a "system" drop-down menu, for managing your cloud installation, managing its back-ups, and even instantly spinning up a testing server. The drop-down allows you to easily and quickly perform system-wide functions on the fly. Schedule automated site or individual portal backups Manage and download your backup files Manage DNN version upgrades, with one-click ease of use Spin up and manage staging portals/environments Clone portals FTP, RDP, and Web Deploy access What are the Cloud Specifications? Compliance and Performance Physical Facilities ISO 27001, EU DPD, HIPAA BAA, and SSAE 16 FISMA in progress Service-level compliance on the near-term roadmap Preparedness, testing, refinement 99.9% uptime, financially-backed SLAs Highly available platform services Redundant power, climate control, fire prevention and suppression State-of-the-art security and access control Leading innovator in power efficiency 2,000+ people in cloud infrastructure engineering and operations Azure HIPAA compliance $2.3B+ in cloud infrastructure What are the DNN Evoq CMS Specifications? That's a great question, and although I know the answer today, they upgrade the offering almost every month, so I'm not going to print the exact specs here as by the time you read this, they'll already be offering more. So How Do I Purchase Azure? Give your web services provider a call to talk to you about spinning up Evoq Cloud for you and get started today!