Providing secure self-service with the Windows Azure Pack

It's no longer a secret that the future of computing is the cloud. Several large-scale corporations have thrown their hats in the ring in providing a public consumable cloud computing model, and there is perhaps no cloud computing platform as revolutionary as Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft has poured billions and billions of dollars into building out a global public cloud infrastructure that is used by many businesses today as the backbone of their enterprises. However, not all use cases merit the use of a public cloud platform. Maybe you have some strict industry regulations that require all computing resources and data to stay on-premise, or maybe your CEO is just plain scared of those stormy-looking clouds. Whatever the reason, what if you could leverage some of the enhancements designed for Microsoft's public cloud in your own on-premise private cloud? Would you do it?

One such enhancement that is available is the Windows Azure Pack...