Early into a one hour presentation on hybrid computing scenarios for SharePoint 2013 on-premises, and Office 365, Paolo Pialorsi states an objective most organizations will likely implement when they embark on a hybrid cloud computing project — to build an integrated computing solution from cloud and on-premises components. The title of Pialorsi’s presentation is Overview […]
SharePoint-Videos will host a webinar on hybrid, online, or on-premises SharePoint server options on November 19, 2014
As Satya Nadella made clear during Microsoft’s most recent quarterly earnings report, a strong driver of the success of Microsoft’s Azure and Office 365 products is the unique position of servers for Microsoft’s ubiquitous enterprise applications (not the least of which is SharePoint) at the so-called “edge” of the cloud, meaning on-premises. But how can […]
Microsoft pushes hybrid cloud computing into the sweet spot for cloud PaaS solutions
If Microsoft’s Q1 2015 earnings report can be taken as a reliable measure of where it makes sense for them to allocate resources and focus, hybrid cloud computing is now in the limelight. SharePoint on premises and SharePoint Online, Office 365 are great examples of this concept at work. Earlier this week this writer published […]
Microsoft Simplifies Onboarding Process for Office 365
In a short video on MSDN Channel 9, titled Get your Office Tenant on, FastTrack Deployment of the New Service, Microsoft® demonstrates how enterprise businesses looking to add Office 365 computing can plan on a short implementation process. The video presentation is led by Jeremy Chapman (one of the Channel 9 hosts) and Keith Laborde, […]
Microsoft Focuses on SharePoint Online, but are Enterprise Organizations Ready for the Cloud?
The biggest impediment, for most enterprise businesses considering Office 365, can be found in public discussions about online security. Office 365 is a suite of computer applications delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS). Ostensibly the same well-publicized vulnerabilities endemic to an ever growing set of SaaS offers (including Amazon.com, and even Apple’s iCloud, albeit […]