Suppose you have currently a sps 2010 site and maybe you want to upgrade. What will you do upgrade ? or place it in the cloud ?
And you use the sps only for document archive and some team sites, currently you have the whole DTAP config and every rol is configured for high availability. The deployment is done by SCCM in the first place and using VMM 2012 with orchestrator to deploy a bigger farm if you need one.
but why all this if you can place this in azure let me hear your opinion and or when would you place it in the cloud and when not.
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Azure would be cost-prohibitive to those running servers in their closet, to be honest.
DR is a secondary concern for them. Â Primary would just be having decent backups (which are often on USB drives that may or may not leave the building).
Doing DR with SharePoint, regardless of how you spin it up, is extremely expensive.
True but for a DR solution it could be great and the “closets” customers will be better off with a azure site than his own site better uptime.
And yes Cost is the key and this is different in every environment. but there are so many System Center products that are (can ) connection to azure.
small sites have much to win here.
I think right now, Azure is just too expensive (as would be Rackspace — but at least RS will integrate with your network via MPLS versus VPN only). Â It is great for smaller hosts, but if you have a farm of any decent size, you’ll quickly run well over the cost of owning physical hardware.
And remember, not every environment requires a full blown data center. Â I’ve seen closets (with and without air conditioning…) serve as “server rooms”.
I see Azure and O365 as completely different systems. Â On one Side you have O365, which is cheaper, but you got way less features and you don’t really control much. Â They update you when they want, and they give you features when they want. Â You pay per user, it might be cheaper.
On the other side you got Azure, which gives you full control, however you pay a lot. And compared to O365, you still need to pay for setup and maintenance of your Software (WIndows Server/ SharePoint/ ETC).
I can see more business cases for O365 vs Azure honestly.Â
In order to run the size of a VM SharePoint 2013 needs (XL or A6), you’re looking at nearly $500/month. Â For demo purposes, that might be fine (given you shut down the VM when not demoing).
If you have a small number of users, you’re more likely to go O365 as it is significantly cheaper…
