On the other hand a hosted SharePoint service is quite the opposite since the maintenance vows are now non existent
There may be some folks jumping up and down stating that a SharePoint, cloud-based hosted SharePoint environment, can easily scale to 5,000 or 15,000 users and I don’t doubt it can, but what does “ scale to ” really mean?
What’s important to understand is that now app developers can create these remotely hosted SharePoint applications and have data travelling around the world between datacenters that is completely secure
On-premises SharePoint (or even a privately hosted SharePoint instance) allows organizations to make use of these third-party add-ons which, as discussed above, are desperately needed to allow SharePoint to play at the enterprise party
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Microsoft has been very aggressive in their use of hosting SharePoint and other applications in their cloud infrastructure
As midsize to Fortune 500 type organizations are finding out, a hosted SharePoint cloud outside of their immediate control can cause unbelievable frustrations
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With this great reward, however, comes great risk. Hosting SharePoint through Microsoft Office 365 could reduce cost and improve global access to content
Experts in the field I believe it is useful to reference a few experts in the field of SharePoint Governance from my own research over the years: Christian Buckley - Axceller, US - http://buckleyplanet.typepad.com - @buckleyplanet Christian has focused on this topic based on his experience in Microsoft being involved in launching a hosted SharePoint platform Virgil Carroll - High Monkey, US - http://bananablog.highmonkey.com - @vcmonkey Virgil is often seen with his partner in crime, Richard Harbridge presenting on his consultancy experience around Governance with great anecdotes to help you relate to your own organization problems
To first describe and baseline a private cloud deployment , the following items will typically be considered and implemented. Hosting SharePoint's infrastructure for a specific workload or combination of workloads such as these: • Application platform for line-of-business (LOB) application • Business intelligence implementations • Collaboration, community, and/or project sites • Internet/intranet publishing portal • Personal sites • Enterprise search SharePoint private clouds have the following features: Scalable, flexible architectures Ability to host many “customers” or tenants Repeatable, predictable automated deployment and provisioning Upgrade, failover, and patching resiliency Note: Many of these items can also be achieved in a hybrid cloud environment