Life used to be easy. If you were an Exchange or SharePoint Administrator the question was when, and how to convince your IT Manager and/or CIO of the value, to upgrade your system to the latest version. While we have faced hosted vs. on-premises discussions, the cloud (IaaS, SaaS,etc) increases the complexity of Infrastructure decisions and gives a direct voice to the business stakeholder. In this session we will analyze a real-life scenario where a company must figure out not only how to change their infrastructure from Exchange/SharePoint 2010 to 2013 but where the content should live. Making this decisions based on business needs, compliance and security is Infrastructure as Information Architecture (IaIA).

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Hybrid Dilemma: Using Infrastructure as Information Architecture
Adam Levithan
Product Manager, Metalogix
alevithan@metalogix.com
@collabadam

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Abstract
Life used to be easy. If you were an Exchange or SharePoint Administrator
the question was when, and how to convince your IT Manager and/or CIO
of the value, to upgrade your system to the latest version. While we have
faced hosted vs. on-premises discussions, the cloud (IaaS, SaaS,etc)
increases the complexity of Infrastructure decisions and gives a direct
voice to the business stakeholder. In this session we will analyze a real-life
scenario where a company must figure out not only how to change their
infrastructure from Exchange/SharePoint 2010 to 2013 but where the
content should live. Making this decisions based on business needs,
compliance and security is Infrastructure as Information Architecture
(IaIA).
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Enough about me, what about you?
What’s your hybrid situation?
• Already hybrid across SharePoint/ Exchange
• Will be hybrid across SharePoint/Exchange in the next 6 months
• Planning hybrid across SharePoint/Exchange in the next 12 months
• Currently unsure about implementing hybrid
Poll

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Agenda
› What is
› Infrastructure
› Information Architecture (IA)
› The Scenario
› The Solution
› Questions

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What is?
On-Premises
VirtualizationServices
Applications Server Software
Databases Server Hardware
Storage
Networking
Application Features

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What is?
Hosted (IaaS)
VirtualizationServices
Applications Server Software
Databases Server Hardware
Storage
Networking
Application Features
Managed (IaaS or PaaS)
VirtualizationServices
Applications Server Software
Databases Server Hardware
Storage
Networking
Application Features
[ ] as a Service
Infrastructure
Platform

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What is?
Cloud Software (SaaS)
VirtualizationServices
Applications Server Software
Databases Server Hardware
Storage
Networking
Application Features
[ ] as a Service
Software

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What is?
Cross version SharePoint (2007/2010/2013)
Geographically distributed on-premises environments
SharePoint Online to SharePoint On-Premises
Cloud to On-Premises
Cloud to Cloud
Hybrid

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http://www.ashworthcreative.com/wp-
content/uploads/2011/02/InformationArchitecture.jpg

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What’s the Scenario
Access to documents and content - regardless of technical issues
Ownership of information
Ease of Use
We already purchased it
Business Needs

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What’s the Scenario
Network topology (latency & challenged networks)
Authentication, Authorization and Permissions Management
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Controlling Roll-out of Features
Current Licensing
Technical Concerns

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What’s the Scenario
Exchange 2007
Standard mailboxes
Shared mailboxes supporting automated business processes
Regulatory archives
SharePoint 2010
Custom Workflows
Regulatory document repositories
ADFS
Technical Inventory

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Their Challenges
Low bandwidth and high latency exists in the cloud too.

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Their Challenges
Difficult to integrate content over multiple technologies,
and across the world.

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What about you?
POLL
What challenge are you most concerned about?
• Low Bandwidth / High Latency
• Geographically Distributed Environments
• Disaster Recovery of Content
• Integrity and Security of Data

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The Solution
Infrastructure as Information Architecture
(IaIA)

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IT’s Next Generation Infrastructure
On-Premises CloudOn-Premises

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Moving Workloads (IA)
Identity/ Authentication
RecordTemporary
TypeofContent
Instant Message
E-Mail
Social
Team Sites/ ExtranetOnline Storage
Intranet
Document/
Records Management
Individual Team Enterprise
Audience
Originally presented at Portal Solutions http://www.portalsolutions.net

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What did they do?

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Security and Compliance

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Security and Compliance
On-Premises CloudOn-Premises
Team Sites
Intranet
Regulated E-mail & Archives

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Actual Total Cost
Migration
Staffing
Tools
Transformation
Off-Boarding
Wednesday 11th Nov, 14:00
W24 - The Slippery Slope of
Migrating to SharePoint
Online or On-Premise
(Level 200)

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Applying the Cost to Rebuild
On-Premises CloudOn-Premises
Customized Business Process
Document/ Records Management
Team Sites
Intranet
Regulated E-mail & Archives

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Enjoybable user experience
Balancing form and function.
Thanks Joshua Steiner @ Portal Solutions for the slide

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FIRST - Let Everyone Know About it!

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Cloud Ready Tools
On-Premises Cloud
Online Storage
Extranet
Social
On-Premises
E-mail
Team Sites
Intranet
Regulated E-mail & Archives
Customized Business Process
Document/ Records Management

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Authentication, Authorization and Permissions Management
Authentication
Authorization
Permissions

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Infrastructure as Information Architecture (IAIA)
On-Premises On-Premises
Identity/
Authentication
Hybrid
Customized Business Process
Document/ Records Management
Team Sites
Intranet
Regulated E-mail & Archives
Cloud
Online Storage
Extranet
Social
E-mail

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What to do
Prioritize Content
− What type of Hybrid are you building?
− Move e-mail first 
Identify the initial effort to move content
− Migration of content
− Synchronization of content
Perform the Business Cost Analysis
− Describe the risk of NOT utilizing Hybrid
− How will the Infrastructure be managed?
Monitor Usage Across All Tools

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Questions
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