Excellent "real life" blog and case study !
During the past weeks, I worked with a customer that implemented a ton of new stuff around deployment and virtualization.
He did a fantastic job and continue to dig into those new Microsoft technologies as you can see on his blog : https://blogs.ethz.ch/jlaville/
Additionally, you can check out the case study :
https://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000001734
Note that this post is provided "as is" with no warranty nor supportability engagement. It does not engage Microsoft at all.
Nevertheless if you consider this not clear, incomplete or inadequate, please let me know !