We are now beginning our enjoyable journey of moving DocRead and DocSurvey to the Cloud. As you can imagine we are busy researching the various areas that need to be taken into account to move a solution such as ours to the Cloud. We are intending to share and discuss as much of this as possible – so that we can learn and others can also learn from the discussions here.
So, onto the question …
DocRead requires it’s own database and also several background jobs to process tasks, monitor audiences / groups and also to synchronise metadata from SharePoint into our DB. In large orgs we also send a ton of e-mail to remind people to read those documents! These (along with a few other pieces) mandate that we will need to utilise a separate Cloud Service to host the database and also do the processing away from 365. We also want to host a version SharePoint Foundation for customers that don’t have 365, On-Premise SharePoint or are still using SharePoint 2007.
- How much does Azure cost and how does that compare to the likes of Fpweb.net / Amazon?
- Is hosting one Farm (with multi-tenants) still the way to go?
- Is it trivial to pay for more capacity (as we need it) and how fast can we upgrade?Â
- What monitoring tools are in place?
- What’s the SLA with Azure?
I am researching this as we speak, so will share …
