Ever wonder how can you move your on-prem SP farm to the cloud? And what is cloud anyway?
As of 03/22/2013 you have 2 options of cloud-solution for SharePoint:
- Office 365 that deliver bunch of MS products , one of them is SharePoint Online.
This is a classical example of SaaS.
- WIndows Azure VM.
This is a classical example of IaaS.
Here is a good pic to describe SaaS (Software as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service) and IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service):
In the context of SharePoint migration to the cloud, you need to understand that SharePoint Online delivers the latest version of SharePoint
What is the implication? You have to be totally ready to move SP2013 .MS doesn't offer a mean to move data from your on-prem to SharePoint online.
At this moment I haven't tried any 3d party tools for this purpose yet.
Also, your farm should not have farm solutions. SharePoint Online doesn't support farm solutions. And it doesn't support reporting services at this moment.
Windows Azure VM gives you more flexibility. You can choose what version of SharePoint you want to run, and you have a full control to administer the system. More on SharePoint Deployment on Windows Azure Virtual Machines
But also it means you have to have a resource to support the system.
And by the way, wonder how can you cut the cost? I wonder too)
At this moment, it's interesting to know that:
As of 03/22/2013 you have 2 options of cloud-solution for SharePoint:
- Office 365 that deliver bunch of MS products , one of them is SharePoint Online.
This is a classical example of SaaS.
- WIndows Azure VM.
This is a classical example of IaaS.
Here is a good pic to describe SaaS (Software as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service) and IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service):
In the context of SharePoint migration to the cloud, you need to understand that SharePoint Online delivers the latest version of SharePoint
What is the implication? You have to be totally ready to move SP2013 .MS doesn't offer a mean to move data from your on-prem to SharePoint online.
At this moment I haven't tried any 3d party tools for this purpose yet.
Also, your farm should not have farm solutions. SharePoint Online doesn't support farm solutions. And it doesn't support reporting services at this moment.
Windows Azure VM gives you more flexibility. You can choose what version of SharePoint you want to run, and you have a full control to administer the system. More on SharePoint Deployment on Windows Azure Virtual Machines
But also it means you have to have a resource to support the system.
And by the way, wonder how can you cut the cost? I wonder too)
At this moment, it's interesting to know that:
Virtual machines continue to incur compute charges even when they are stopped You can avoid these charges by deleting the virtual machine.BTW, in case you want to automate SP installation process, try this - http://autospinstaller.codeplex.com/
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