brightstarr's uk cloud and office 365 seminar presentation
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Our recent UK seminar focused on the future-proof topic of Cloud and Office 365 technology and how this can work for your organisation. Check out our slides here or visit our website to learn more about how you can leverage Cloud technology - http://www.brightstarr.com/Microsoft-Sharepoint-Solutions/Office-365TRANSCRIPT
CLOUD INTRANETS ON
THE ENTERPRISE SKYLINE
ABOUT US
SPEAKERS
Brett JohnsonOffice365 Technical
Specialist
Microsoft, UK
Melvin LancelotHead of Alliances, Presales
Ralph James Engagement Manager
Sam HassaniPrincipal Consultant (MCM)
Marwan TarekHead of Consulting (MVP)
AGENDA
09:45 – 10:15
10:15 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:15
11:15 – 11:45
11:45 – 12:15
12:15– 12:30
Why consider the cloud?
Cloud Intranets overview – the art of the possible
Coffee break
Office365 under the hood
Microsoft roadmap
Q & A
WHY CONSIDER THE CLOUD?
1 billionsmartphones, 4 years
ahead of predictions
50%of enterprise customers
are “on the road” to cloud
TRENDS IMPACTING THE WAY WE WORK
For the first time in modern
history, workplace
demographics now span
3 generations
Many of the world’s largest and most recognizable
global brands run on Microsoft’s cloud productivity
services.
41 of the
Interbrand Top 100
Each year customers of Microsoft’s cloud
productivity services…
Fly 222 millionpassengers
Build
6millionautomobilesin the United States alone
Serve 27 billionmeals
Sell
16 billioncans of soda
Make billioncups of coffee4
OFFICE 365 | WHAT IS IT?
Latest productivity services running in Microsoft’s cloud
AZURE | WHAT IS IT?
CUSTOMER
SERVICE
PROVIDER
WINDOWS
AZURE
1 CONSISTENT
PLATFORM
Journey to the Cloud
“Leverage the strengths of both parts while
minimizing the components’ weaknesses”
+ =HybridOnline Azure IaaS/ On-
premises
CLOUD CONSIDERATIONS
CONSISTENCY
LIFT & SHIFT
REGULATORY
TRUST/CONTROL
COMPLIANCE
USER
EXPERIENCE
SUMMARY
1. Now is the time to define the cloud strategy
for your organisation
2. Understand the blockers that are holding
back your adoption of cloud technology
3. Set your success criteria
CLOUD INTRANETS OVERVIEW
The art of the possible
BUILDING A MODERN INTRANET
PersonalisedMobile SocialUX
Mobile is the “new face of engagement” for employees.
Mobile’s unintended consequences
BYOD
Multi-platform clients
Multi-device confusion
Apps vs Web
Complex technology stack
MOBILE
Communicating with Colleagues
Sharing and reviewing documents
Promoting a new initiative
Finding an expert
More informative than entertaining
Transparency among team members
SOCIAL
Bring your intranet to
life with dynamic
conversations
Best-in class web
publishing portal
Communicate in
real-time
Stay connected
from any device
Response to the Dynamics CRM activity show up on the Yammer feed
Self Service BI Portals DashboardsData Visualisations
Deliver BI Quickly and
Economically
Rapidly Deliver
Insights
Communicate & Keep
Teams in Sync
1 2 3
1 in 4 enterprise customers on Office 3651 Billion Office Users
Analyze Visualize Share Find
Q&A
MobileDiscover
Scalable | Manageable | Trusted
DEMO – MODERN INTRANET
UX, Social, Mobile, Visualisations
CLOUD CONTINUUM
CONTROL
CO
ST
-E
FF
ICIE
NC
Y
On-premise – SharePoint
- SQL SeverValue Prop:• Full h/w control – size/scale
• Roll-your-own HA/DR/scale
Value Prop:• On-Demand Infrastructure
• Direct migration of existing apps
• Roll-your-own HA/DR/scale
IaaS – SharePoint
- SQL Server
Value Prop:• Auto HA, Fault-Tolerance
• Friction-free scale
• Self-provisioning, mgmt @ scale
• Management Ease
SaaS – Office365
HYBRID MODEL - GUIDANCE
Hybrid
On-premises
Online
Azure (IaaS)
• Increase employee adoption
• Understand your investment
in SharePoint
• Understand who is using it
and for what
• Align SharePoint usage to
business goals
• Measure Employee
Collaboration
• Support upgrade decision
BREAK
OFFICE 365 “UNDER THE HOOD”
Insights into the Office 365 underlying infrastructure
April May June July August September October November December January
485% User Growth Since April
Not Trials. Not Tire Kickers.
Real, Paying Customers.
15,342
Active User Growth – Tenant X
37,868Active User Growth – Tenant Y
33%
Word
31%
Excel
19%
PowerPoint
4%
4%Other
9%
400+ Petabytes
400+ Petabytes
99.75%
99.80%
99.85%
99.90%
99.95%
100.00%
Mar-13 Apr-13 May-13 Jun-13 Jul-13 Aug-13 Sep-13 Oct-13 Nov-13 Dec-13 Jan-14 Feb-14
SharePoint Online Availability
SEPTEMBER INCIDENT
SEPTEMBER INCIDENT
Mar-13 Apr-13 May-13 Jun-13 Jul-13 Aug-13 Sep-13 Oct-13 Nov-13 Dec-13 Jan-14
Daily Active Users Paging Escalations
Human error
Change
Telemetry
CFE
SQL
Sources of Missed Minutes Ungraceful Disconnected
Too slow, with too much built-up entropy
Step 1Deploy a target farm. The new VMs have the latest SharePoint bits, security patches, etc.
NLB
Step 2Dual-mount the target farm to also read from the same databases
Split SiteMap from ConfigDBto eliminate need for SiteMaprebuild
NLB
Step 3Route traffic for synthetic tenants to the target farm and monitor farm health
Step 4Gradually route traffic for customer tenants to the target farm
NLB
Step 5Tear down old source farm
NLB
FastSeamlessNLBNLB
12hOnly
Upgrade
Every EveryCritical fixes and security
patches
New features and security
patches
Patching
2w 6mo
24h
Upgrade
2wEvery EveryCritical fixes
and security patches
New features and security
patches
Patching
Safety
Speed
Merlin & JobletsAutomation prevents human error, which was aleading cause of downtime
Code doesn’t take coffee breaks. Automation can remove time spent idling
A safe way to allow human intervention when automation needs a push
May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb
2.5x reduction in manual touches
∞
ABOUT US
PROJECT METHODOLOGY
THANK YOU
Q&A