+2,000,000 Users in more than 80 countries and 40 languages
+30,000 Customers from small to enterprise
30,000. Number of engineers at Microsoft doing cloud-related work.
2,000. Number of people managing Microsoft online services.
1,000. Number of servers that power Dynamics CRM Online.
99.9%. Guaranteed uptime per month (44 minutes of downtime allowed). Worst case, there is 5-15 minutes worth of data loss (RPO).
60%. Customer adds using CRM Online.
41. Number of global markets in which CRM Online is available for use.
40+. Number of different cloud services managed by Microsoft Global Foundation Services (GFS). The GFS site says "200 online services and web portal", but maybe they use different math.
30. Number of days that the free trial lasts.
30. Quarters of double-digit growth.
19. Number of servers in each rack that make up "pod." Each "scale group" (which contains all the items needed for a CRM instance) is striped across server racks, and multiple scale groups are collected into pods. While CRM app/web servers may be multi-tenet, each customer's database is uniquely provisioned and not shared.
8. Number of months it took the CRM Online team to devise and deliver a site failover solution that requires a single command. Impressive. They make heavy use of SQL Server 2012 "always on" capabilities for their high availability and disaster recovery strategy.
5. Copies of data that exist for a given customer. You have (1) your primary organization database, (2) a synchronous snapshot database (which is updated at the same time as the primary), (3)(4) asynchronous copies made in the alternate data center (for a given region), and finally, (5) a daily backup to an offsite location. Whew!
6. Number of data centers that have CRM Online available (California, Virginia, Dublin, Amsterdam, Hong Kong and Singapore).
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0. Amount of downtime necessary to perform all the upgrades in the environment. These include daily RFCs, 0-3 out-of-band releases per month, monthly security patches, bi-monthly update rollups, password changes every 70 days, and twice-yearly service updates. It sounds pretty darn complicated to handle both backwards and forwards compatibility while keeping customers online during upgrades, but it sounds like they pull it off.