Understanding On-Premises, Cloud, and Hybrid Environments in SharePoint 2013 & Office 365 The on-premises versus cloud environment debate about SharePoint started several years ago. That debate became much more heated when Jared Spataro, Director of SharePoint at Microsoft, announced during a conference that SharePoint 2013 was being developed using a “Cloud First” strategy and that Office 365 customers could expect to have access to the benefits of the new release sooner than on-premises deployments
Recently Google announced the acquisition of QuickOffice - a “Cloud” based office productivity solution known for its ability to provide better than average Microsoft Office file format support and cross-device support. The thought that immediately came to mind wasn’t so much...
The article is nothing but FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) being spread by an on-premises content management provider (props for dropping Gartner, Forrester, and AIIM names though)
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For many SharePoint on-premises customers the shift toward software-as-a-service is more than just moving SharePoint's increasingly business-critical capabilities to the cloud
It has some substantial advantages when compared with traditional on-premises deployment, such as low TCO, agility to set up, less dependency upon highly skilled IT personnel, better scalability, to mention only a few
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This also requires reexamining your Office 365 and/or SharePoint governance model because there are key functional pieces in these new releases that now have their own layer or uncoupled type of behavior that must be signed off on and understood by all stakeholders. The on-premises and/or cloud or off-premises architecture is typically clear, but the term “hybrid” is referred to when one of the following five “non-SharePoint elements” is configured to support a hybrid SharePoint 2013 deployment : Reverse proxy and certificate authentication Identity provider (ADFS, etc.)
I'm in marketing at DocuWare where we offer EDM solutions in the cloud or on-premises (I'm not here to sell you; just offering advice)
For one, most of the leading collaboration platforms for the cloud are not yet at parity with what can be accomplished on premises (SharePoint being a leading example)