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SharePointCincy 2014: On-Premises, Office 365, or Dedicated Hosting - Which to Choose
1. Welcome To
On-Premises, Office 365, or Dedicated Hosting - Which to Choose?
Speaker: John Ferringer
Blog: http://www.MyCentralAdmin.com
Twitter: @Ferringer
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On premises: in your datacenter
Hosted SharePoint: in their datacenter
◦ Shared service
◦ What is a shared service?
Dedicated Hosting: in their datacenter
◦ Dedicated service
◦ Different types of offering
◦ What is a dedicated service?
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Total Control
You own it
◦ Long term license
◦ Your data
◦ Your servers
◦ Your security
You define it
◦ Functionality
◦ Features
◦ Customizations
You set timelines
◦ Patching
◦ Upgrades
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SharePoint as a service
Owned and managed by a service provider
Control over the platform?
◦ No
Control over your service?
◦ Some
Several providers in the market
◦ Microsoft:
Office 365 - SharePoint Online
◦ Rackspace
◦ FPWeb
◦ Many more
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Pay for what you need/use
Defined Cost
OpEx instead of CapEx
No operation of platforms
Rapid deployment
No patching
No upgrades to deploy
Support included
14. SharePoint Standard:
◦ Server License: $4600
◦ Server: $1500 x 2 servers = $3000
◦ SQL Server 2008 Std: $2000
◦ User CALs: $90 x 100 users = $9000 a year
Exchange Standard:
◦ Server License: $1100
◦ Server: $1500
◦ User CALs: $60 x 100 = $6000 a year
Lync Standard:
◦ Server License: $670
◦ Server: $1500
◦ SQL Server 2008 Std: $2000
◦ User CALs: $32 x 100 = $3200 a year
SharePoint
Online: $4.00
Exchange Online:
$4.00
Lync Online:
$2.00
$9,600
100O365E1Licenses
($8each),12months
Total Cost
Per Year
$34,570
$15.50
peruserper
month
$7.17
peruserper
month
$6.14
peruserper
month
15. With Office 365, you pay $9,600 each year
With On Premises, you don’t
But with On Premises you do pay:
◦ To keep it up and running
◦ To fix problems
◦ To upgrade
… hold that thought
16. Implementation Costs
24/7 Support Costs
Antivirus/Anti-SPAM
High Availability
Disaster Recovery
Networking/Power/HVAC
Huge Mailboxes (50 GB)
Large Email Attachments
Office Online
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You don’t own it
You don’t define the service
Serves the lowest common
denominator
Limitations
◦ 2013 only?
◦ How can you customize it?
◦ What features can you get?
You don’t set the timeline
Reduced visibility
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Different types of hosting options
◦ SharePoint as a service
◦ Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS)
Owned and managed by a service provider
◦ But levels of management vary
Control over the operating system?
◦ No
Control over the platform?
◦ Maybe
Control over your service?
◦ More than Shared, less than On Premises
Several providers in the market
◦ Microsoft:
Office 365 – Dedicated SharePoint Online
Azure IAAS
◦ AWS (IAAS)
◦ Rackspace – IAAS or Dedicated Hosted SharePoint
◦ FPWeb – Dedicated Hosted SharePoint
◦ Many more
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Some Control
You don’t share it
You can define it more
You don’t manage the OS
You may not manage
the platform
Support included
Defined cost
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Lack of total control
Higher cost than shared
More responsibilities?
◦ IAAS: patching/upgrades
Less control over:
◦ Timelines
◦ Functionality
◦ Features
You don’t own the platform
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Where do you want to put your SharePoint
environment?
What do you want to do in it?
How much control do you want?
Long term plan for IT?
Security requirements?
◦ Any other special requirements?
How much expertise do you have?
What SLAs do you need?
What other services do you need?
How much do you want to pay?
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