Cloud Computing - What's your POV?

gongers said:
That I believe, but there are reasons that certain services are not made available everywhere at the same time. Azure and Office 365 will be officially available in South Africa soon. And when Azure does land here it will be the fully fledged Azure: stateful VM worker roles and all.

While it is fine to play with the services before they are supported, most of our customers want that 99.9 backing Microsoft offers and rely on the support that being official brings with it... right?

What do you think of Office 365? Of Azure? You have played with both a bit I take it?
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I have just taken over the IT for a group of 15 companies throughout Africa and i am seriously considering Office 365. There are about 100 users in total and about 20 of them on the road at a time. Haven't finished investigating all the costs yet but i doubt implementing my own centralised and redundant infrastructure(Exchange, Lync, SharePoint) would work out cheaper than the +-R160 per user per month that MS is offering.
 
Ramcat said:
Haven't finished investigating all the costs yet but i doubt implementing my own centralised and redundant infrastructure(Exchange, Lync, SharePoint) would work out cheaper than the +-R160 per user per month that MS is offering.
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That, is exactly, the power of cloud computing. Enterprise-class functionality without the massive CAPEX that it would require to build that yourself and with a resonable OPEX to look at. There is a webex being organised by Space Age Technologies aimed at answering technical and business questions about Office 365 in South Africa on Tuesday the 26th June that may be interesting for you to attend.

Disclaimer: I work for Space Age Technologies and am part of the team answering questions on Office 365 in that webinar. My views here are my own however and my boss cannot fire me for expressing them ;)
 
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