A presentation in which we explore the influences pushing cloud adoption, potential barriers to adoption, how to overcome these, SharePoint in the cloud, and what the road map to the cloud might look like.

1. Overcoming Barriers to the Cloud
Andy Milsark

2. Andy Milsark
• Fpweb.net
• Lead SharePoint Engineer
• Private Cloud Architect
• @amilsark
• amilsark@fpweb.net

3. Agenda
• Why CEOs are pushing cloud
• Barriers to cloud adoption
• How to mitigate risk and break down the
barriers
• SharePoint in the Cloud
• Your roadmap to the cloud

4. CEOs Want the Cloud
• Reduce Costs
• Reduce IT Overhead
• Boost company agility/productivity/efficiency
• Get products to market faster

5. CEO Goals
• Increase the value of the company
• Mitigate Risk
• Be strategic

6. CEO to IT Leadership
• Let’s move to the cloud now
• IT - It is not always a quick implementation
• IT - We need to fully explore the solutions,
vendors, risk, etc

7. Influencers of the Cloud
• US Government - Cloud First Policy
• Microsoft big cloud investments in Azure and
Office 365
• Subscription vs. up front

8. Cloud Adoption Trends
• More organizations are willing to house data
externally
• A common questionnaire (RFP) is the most
utilized risk evaluation method
• 50% or less have a formal cloud provider
evaluation process

9. Cloud Use Cases
Function Migration Now Migration in 2 Years
Email/Collaboration 57% 31%
Sales/Marketing 54% 32%
Office Productivity Tools 46% 37%
IT Management 41% 40%
Customer Care 41% 45%
BI / Analytics 32% 46%
Content Management 30% 53%

10. Poll
• Who is using cloud services?
• What are some barriers/issues you’ve come
across?

11. Barriers to the Cloud
1. Security
2. Performance
3. Reliability
4. Contractual Legal

12. Security
• Information Security
• Data Ownership
• Regulatory Compliance
• Malicious Attack Protection

13. Performance
• Performance Standards
• User Authentication
• Caching Services

14. Reliability
• Uptime SLA
• Support Procedures, SLA
• Incident Escalation Process
• Technology Stability

15. Contractual Barriers
http://public.brighttalk.com/resource/core/11989/april_9_prepare_for_minimize_security_jheiser_18197.pdf

16. Possible Risks of Cloud Computing
• Loss of data or service availability
• Loss of application control
– Change control, integration, migration costs
• Compliance violation
• Loss of confidentiality

17. Government Access To Cloud Data
• Patriot Act -The US Govt. can seize data
• Other countries such as Canada, Australia, UK
can seize data even if servers are in another
country as well
• Private hosting companies are less of a target
of terrorists/hackers due to higher price point
and more isolated hardware/network

18. Understand IT Responsibilities
https://www.simple-talk.com/cloud/development/a-comprehensive-introduction-to-cloud-computing/

19. Removing the Barriers
• Define detailed requirements
• Set expectations with moving to a new
subscription model and giving up some
control
• Find qualified providers
• Gain trust in the provider
• Verify the provider

20. Define Requirements
• Moving applications or replacing?
• Business critical app requiring high
availability?
• What amount of data, users, bandwidth?
• Expected growth?
• Does it need to be compliant?

21. SharePoint in the Cloud
• Which SharePoint version do you need?
• Customizations, 3rd party apps
• UserSystem integration
• Data compliance, retention needs
• Vendor supportadmindev services
• DR Options - RTO,RPO

22. O365 vs. On-prem/private cloud
• No full trust code (many 3rd party apps require
this)
• No Content Search WP
• No PerformancePoint
• WCM features lacking for public sites (cross site
publishing, faceted nav, image renditions)
• No analyticsAuditing
• No Content Type Hub

23. Set Expectations
• No you will not lose your job
• How will this affect change control, backups,
monitoring, alerts?
• Budgets may change with a pay as you go
model (or up front for long term contracts)
• Educate users and administrators on the cloud
solution

24. Find Providers
• Get references from Microsoft, partners, other
organizations in your industry
• Attend trade shows (cloud, Gartner, SP
Specific, etc)
• When in doubt goo(Bing) it
• Look for expertise in the type of application or
platform you need

25. Gain Trust in the Provider
• Murphy's Law – things break sometimes
• Transparency and communication
• Technology experience
• Remember that they are an extension of your
IT team.
– If not evaluate other providers

26. Verify the Provider
• Run a POC!
• Verify the provider meets your requirements
and SLA (these may be different in a smaller
POC)
• Test out support processes and transparency
through communication

27. Road Map to the Cloud for the CEO
• Identify IT pain points and Applications that
can be offloaded
• Thoroughly plan and define requirements
• Analyze the costs, benefits, and risks
• Choose a vendor and run a POC!
• Move the applications to production

28. Reference
• SharePoint Private Cloud Hosting – Fpweb.net
• CDW - 2013 State of the Cloud Report - http://bit.ly/XJLk5F
• US Federal Cloud Computing Strategy
• Gartner Research on Cloud Computing
• KPMG – 2012 cloud Providers Survey

29. Questions?
• Fpweb.net booth / experts lounge
• @amilsark
• amilsark@fpweb.net