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Nu beschikbaar: Whitepaper “Hybrid SharePoint Environments with Office 365”

In de keynote van de SharePoint Conference 2011, afgelopen week in Anaheim CA, is het langverwachte whitepaper “Hybrid SharePoint Environments with Office 365” gepresenteerd. Bij een hybride implementatie van SharePoint wordt workloads uit een SharePoint Server 2010 farm on-premise geïntegreerd met workloads in een SharePoint Online tenant.

Het whitepaper is hier te downloaden: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=27580.

Introduction

Hybrid environments enable organizations to achieve a higher degree of flexibility than forcing a choice between either an on-premises or cloud model. Organizations can start to achieve the benefits associated with the use of cloud computing coupled with the customization flexibility and tight data governance of an on-premises system, while delivering a consistent experience to users.

Hybrid environments can be helpful when it is not possible for an organization to migrate to the cloud immediately or in full, due to business, technical or other reasons. Common scenarios of where hybrid environments can be useful include:

• Rapid provisioning of new workloads on Office 365 while maintaining existing on-premises workloads
• Organizations wishing to migrate workloads from an existing on-premises environment to the cloud over time, in a phased approach
• Organizations wanting to supplement their cloud environment with additional features or customizations which are currently only possible on-premises
• Compliance or data sovereignty reasons which might stipulate certain data be hosted in a particular location

Office 365 offers many features which can aid an organization in deploying a robust hybrid environment. In SharePoint 2010, the two SharePoint installations that make up a hybrid environment – on-premises and Office 365 – are largely separate. A thoughtful hybrid design helps bridge the gap between these two distinct deployment environments.

This paper provides information, advice and guidance to help organizations determine whether a hybrid approach is beneficial. In addition, it highlights how best to approach a hybrid solution and how to best plan for distributed workloads.

Source: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog/Pages/BlogPost.aspx?pID=994