This is my session covering for Paul Turner - slides are a mixture of his and mine...

1. Going to the SharePoint 2013 Cloud
What does a business need to make it
successful?
BUS611
Paul Turner

2. Going to the SharePoint 2013 Cloud
What does a business need to make it
successful?
BUS611
Matt Groves

3. Matt Groves
Head of Information Worker Solutions
mattg@tesl.com
www.tesl.com
www.linkedin.com/in/mattgroves
www.about.me/mattgroves

6. The Cloud…

7. “Cloud computing is a model for enabling
convenient, on-demand network access
to a shared pool of configurable
computing resources (e.g. networks,
servers, storage, applications, and
services) that can be rapidly provisioned
and released with minimal management
effort or service provider interaction”
Ant Clay

8. “Cloud computing is a model for enabling
convenient, on-demand network access
to a shared pool of configurable
computing resources (e.g. networks,
servers, storage, applications, and
services) that can be rapidly provisioned
and released with minimal management
effort or service provider interaction”
Ant Clay

9. Why…?

10. “The trouble is the infrastructure in the cloud is
not sufficiently mature enough to support the
kind of things we're doing in the Olympics. The
applications aren't there, they're not written for
the cloud; quite a big migration would be
required to move particularly that core
infrastructure into the cloud.”
Gerry Pennell
CIO, London Organising Committee of the
Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG)
July 2012 in an interview for CIO Magazine

14. Why not?

15. “The Cloud is for anyone…
… but isn’t for everyone”
Matt Groves

16. “If I’d have asked the customers
what they wanted, they would
have said a faster horse…”
Henry Ford
Founder of Ford Motors

17. Why Not
 Defined service
 You get what provider offer
 License bands
 Data location
 Can your data live in Ireland/Netherlands?
 Applications and features not available
 Telephony (VOIP)
 Publishing/Development
 Others etc….

18. Trends
 Most businesses considering cloud
 Local purchase outside of IT
 Wild West file sharing
 SkyDrive etc.
 Business - pro
 If it gets the job done
 Reduced IT spend
 CIO/IT- against
 Security of data
 Compliance
 Application

19. Are all clouds the same?
 GCAT has 25+ „Cloud‟ providers
 Prices ranging
 £0.50 pp/pm - £20 pp/pm

20. Hybrid Cloud…

22.  70% of CIOs say cloud data
security is a major concern
 79% concerned about vendor
lock in
 75% worried about cloud
performance and
availability
 63% concerned about
integrating internal and
external services
PrivatePublicOn-Premise

23. Organizations seem open to considering SharePoint in the cloud but 76% cited security
concerns and functional gaps in the SharePoint online options.
Forrester
Public or virtual private cloud
 Drivers for Cloud
– Shift from capital investment
to operating expense
– The avoidance of complexity
and evergreen upgrades
appeal to all sizes of
organizations
– Payment is based on actual
usage
– Focus valuable IT resources
on strategic value projects
that deliver sustained
competitive advantage
 Drivers for Private Cloud
– Provides data sovereignty
– Meets regulatory compliance
requirements
– Provides data privacy
– Need for data location control
– Optimized for business
applications
– Single governance and security
model

24. Data sovereignty
 Applies to On-premise and Cloud
 Patriot Act
 Particularly International Corporations
 Government rules for data
 Contradictory
 Risk assessment
 Replication of data (for DR)
 Back-up copies
 A whole separate presentation
 Speak to Paul over a few beers/Wines 

25. What a private cloud should
deliver
Self-service delivery
on-demand
Optimized for
business applications
Automated
metering and
chargeback
Open 3rd-party integration
and extensibility
Single governance and
security model
Instant scalability
with mission-
critical availability

26. Three pillars

27. 3 Pillars
 Data
 People
 Applications

28. ‘More’ is not always what you want …
Data
Data
Data
... But it is what you„ll get!

29. You can‟t leave a leg off a
stool!
 Information drives Data
 Data impacts Infrastructure
 Infrastructure influences Data
 Data is the “pool” for Information
Optimization
Data
Content Management (CM),
Records Management (RM),
Business Intelligence (BI), …
Backup & Recovery,
Archiving,
Business Continuity, …
Storage,
Application,
Network, …
Performance
Availability
Quality

30. Data
 What do you want
 What don‟t you want
 Who needs access?
 Lifecycle
 Removal/Disposal
 More data = More £ $ or € ???
 „Wild West‟ file sharing
 SkyDrive etc.
 On-Premise and Cloud co-existence

31. People
 Personas
 group users
 Devices
 What access
 BYOD?
 Persona/Device matrix
 Defines access requirements

32. Applications
 Do you still require them?
 OOB functionality?
 Still relevant, multiple clones?
 Dates for cut-over
 Year end?
 Other event
 Data residency?
 Can they be ported to cloud?
 Migration?

33. Calls to action

34. Does the solution (and provider) fit with your
organisations culture?

35.  Data classification
 Define policy/guidance
 Educate/train staff
 Review current process (IT touch points)
 Pillars
 Data
 People
 Applications

36.  Testing
 Identity
 Mobility
 SO-SO

37.  Service Level Agreements
 Operational changes
 RTFM (service descriptions)
 Roadmap
 Regulatory compliance (will vary)

38.  Migration
 Capacity
 Tools
 R&R
 Exit strategy!!

39.  Risks
 You do not physically possess storage of your own data, which
leaves the responsibility and control of data storage with the
provider
 Could become too dependent upon the cloud computing
provider
 With data held externally, business continuity and disaster
recovery are in the hands of the provider, YOU need to own
this
 Data migration issues when changing cloud provider
 What happens if your cloud provider goes out of business?
 Commercial agreements breakdown

40.  Questions
 What happens if your cloud provider goes out of business?
 Where does Design start and end?
 The cloud provider is not likely to custom design
 Where does support start and end?
 How do you escalate? Who do you escalate into?
 Who is the dealer group?
 Need to be very structured on governance planning – this can cost
you!
 What impact does a third party have on “internal” support targets ?
 Critically, how to you deal with unknowns and resolutions?
 How do you know you are not being thin provisioned
 How do you know you are getting what you pay for?

41.  Do not:
 Think „cloud‟ is an „all or nothing‟ deal
 Assume your Cloud Provider can design SharePoint for your
business scenario
 Use snapshots as THE backup strategy
 Do not accept what the vendor is telling you!
– Unless it‟s me or John, maybe Paul

42. “Service credits won’t keep your
business running…”
John Timney
Senior Enterprise Architect (Cap Gemini) &
SharePoint MVP

44. Thank you for attending!
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