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.
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). 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. I’ve seen closets (with and without air conditioning…) serve as “server rooms”.
