tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47986118529965124882024-03-12T22:14:00.521-05:00Quite Cloudy by Scott CameronI talk about hints, tips, and tricks for cloud computing with Office 365. I also look at information technology from a business perspective and discuss mobile devices. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14183592941694630444noreply@blogger.comBlogger9512tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4798611852996512488.post-68453400209930408282016-11-03T10:48:00.002-05:002016-11-03T10:55:25.578-05:00Hybrid Cloud - Move at Your Own Pace<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 3.2rem; margin-top: 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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This is the first in a series of Hybrid Cloud articles where I review what "Cloud" means, discuss it's value, and move on to showing how to actually leverage cloud in your business. The second blog, <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hybrid-cloud-iaas-foundation-part-1-scott-cameron?trk=pulse_spock-articles" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Hybrid Cloud - IaaS Foundation Part 1 </a>is available now.</div>
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Are you thinking about going to the cloud and worried about having to go all-in and re-engineer your whole IT strategy? Don't get hung up on the word "cloud" - the cloud is really just another data center - just one run by a company that does it professionally and focuses on doing it at scale and with resources you couldn't hope to match. Besides... you don't have to go all-in at all. You can adopt a hybrid approach.</div>
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Remember Mr. Miagi from the Karate Kid? "Walk left side, safe. Walk right side, safe. Walk middle, sooner or later [makes squish gesture] get squish just like grape." Yeah... the hybrid cloud isn't like that at all.</div>
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With the hybrid cloud you get the best of both worlds - on-premises and the cloud. You leave the workloads and data on-site that can't or don't make sense to move to the cloud and you move the rest. Oh, and you can do it at your own pace and back out any time you like without penalty. Did I mention you pay for only what you use and get billed by the minute?</div>
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Here's how "cloud" looks in a traditional data center:</div>
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You manage everything from the hardware and networking up through the O/S, data and applications.</div>
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At the other end of the spectrum you have full cloud computing or Software as a Service (SaaS) where everything is managed by the provider and you just get a web application:</div>
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<img class="center" height="640" src="https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/AAEAAQAAAAAAAAjDAAAAJGM0NGVlODZhLTJiZGUtNDg2OS04OGEyLTNmMGQ3NWNiZDZlOQ.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 4.4rem auto; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;" width="469" />Hybrid cloud isn't just mixing which services are provided by you and the vendor- as you see in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS):</div>
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<img class="center" height="490" src="https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/AAEAAQAAAAAAAAk2AAAAJDQyMTQwY2Q3LWFjMzMtNDYwZS1hZGRhLWM3MjUyZWMyNzIwNg.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 4.4rem auto; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;" width="640" />Hybrid actually takes portions of a workload - some data, an application, some infrastructure - and moves just that to the cloud, leaving the rest on-premises. Here's an example:</div>
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In this case, the data is stored in the existing data center but is connected to services in the cloud:</div>
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<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Windows virtual machine in IaaS in the cloud runs a custom application that connects back to the data center. (You choose a VM on IaaS instead of PaaS because the custom code requires O/S customization.) The virtual machine could even integrate data from multiple on-premises and cloud sources.</li>
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I'm not an application architect (though I can hook you up with some good ones!) but there are lots of options to choose from. The beautiful thing about the cloud is that you can choose the best option for each part of your solution and you don't have to move the whole application to the cloud.</div>
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In another example, your Exchange e-mail is on-premises and you want to move just some of your users to the cloud:</div>
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In the diagram above, there are some Exchange users in the cloud and some on-premises. They interact with each other as if they were on the same e-mail system. You can choose to move just some mailboxes to the cloud or all of them and even move them back if you like. Perhaps you have some users with e-mail data that contains trade secrets or bank card information... leave them on-premises if you like and just move the general user population to gain efficiency and scale where it makes sense.</div>
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The two main things you gain from the cloud are:</div>
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And with hybrid cloud you don't have to sacrifice your current IT infrastructure and practices to leverage the cloud's benefits.</div>
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This article is cross posted from my original on LinkedIn Pulse: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hybrid-cloud-move-your-own-pace-scott-cameron" target="_blank">Hybrid Cloud - Move at Your Own Pace</a>.</div>
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Whoah! Microsoft did What?</h2>
You've been using Microsoft's products for a while now - Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Skype. You know how to use them, what they do. Here are a few you probably haven't used. Some are really interesting and different than what you normally expect from Microsoft. Some are actually free!<br />
Here are 4 Strange Microsoft Products You Need to Know About:<br />
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<u>Sway</u></h3>
Are you bored with PowerPoint? Need to create a quick and easy visual presentation on the web? Log in with your Microsoft Account at <a href="http://www.sway.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Sway.com</a> and you can create a visually stunning presentation quickly and easily.<br />
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Choose a template then develop your story line with text, pictures and rich media easily - video, audio, Tweets and more. Invite someone to co-create your Sway or review it if you like, then when you're done if you don't like it, hit the Remix button to give it a new look.<br />
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When you're done hit the Share button to share it on Facebook or Twitter or upload it to your public gallery on <a href="http://docs.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Docs.com</a>.<br />
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Sway is free with a Microsoft account. You can also get free <a href="http://outlook.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Outlook.com</a> mail and free OneDrive storage with that same account. Go to <a href="http://live.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">live.com</a> to get an account, but most people have one already.<br />
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<u>Flow</u></h3>
Have you ever missed an e-mail from your boss? Are you tired of posting updates twice - once to Twitter and once to Facebook? Maybe you'd like to automatically save your e-mail attachments to SharePoint. You can do all this and more with <a href="http://flow.microsoft.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Microsoft Flow</a>.<br />
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Flow has dozens of pre-created automations already built that you can use, or create your own from a selection of "triggers", conditions, and actions.<br />
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For instance, you can create a Flow like this:<br />
Receive e-mail from Bob > Create a Wunderlist task > Add the subject from Bob's e-mail as the Title for a new Wunderlist task.<br />
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If you're a geek like I am and have played with home automation, Flow is a lot like IFTTT (If This then That) but for business. It's a cool concept and it will be interesting to see what people come up with.<br />
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Flow is another free service from Microsoft and just requires an account. Sign up at <a href="http://live.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">live.com</a>.<br />
BONUS: Check out <a href="http://www.wunderlist.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Wunderlist</a> - its a great (and free!) to-do and personal planning app for the web and most mobile devices. Wunderlist is a part of Microsoft as well! <a href="http://www.wunderlist.com/blog/our-future-wunderlist-joins-microsoft/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Thank you Satya!</a><br />
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<u>Delve</u></h3>
For those business users already on Office 365 with files in OneDrive and SharePoint, <a href="http://products.office.com/en-us/business/explore-office-delve" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Delve</a> provides a way to share and discover documents, subject matter experts, groups, and more... all based on your own preferences, content and existing contacts and groups.<br />
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Delve lets you "favorite" boards and documents to enable easy recall of content you discover. The feature is quite similar to what you see in Pinterest.<br />
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For instance, if you share a lot of documents with your marketing team and they publish a new design style guide or PowerPoint template to the public, you can go to Delve and quickly see the new doc without having to go search for it on SharePoint.<br />
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Delve also allows you to:<br />
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<li>Post and share an internal blog</li>
<li>View your organization's structure - see the reporting structure for your internal contacts</li>
<li>Offer public praise to your coworkers</li>
<li>Discover various documents you have security to view for contacts, groups, and contacts of contacts</li>
<li>Dive in to MyAnalytics (with an additional license) - get details about how you use your time, who you should stay in touch with, set goals for how to manage your day and more.</li>
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Access Delve from within your Office 365 portal at <a href="http://portal.office.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">portal.office.com</a>. You can open it from the "Waffle" menu in the upper-left-corner if you have access. Requires an appropriate Office 365 subscription.<br />
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<u>Planner</u></h3>
Need to get organized but think Microsoft Project is overkill? If you have Office 365, <a href="http://products.office.com/en-us/business/office-365-planner" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Planner</a> goes hand-in-hand with Office 365 groups to allow for easy team collaboration on tasks with light project management tracking and metrics.<br />
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If you're familiar with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">kanban</a> boards and cards, Planner is very similar. You Create a task or card on one of several boards. The boards organize the cards either in to categories or as a reflection of process or backlog for items to do.<br />
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You can use Planner to assign tasks to team members and then easily track status of all tasks in the Chart view. Planner is closely tied to Office 365 Groups and you can manage a Notebook, store files, share a Calendar and even use the Conversations view to discuss progress of your project. Office 365 Groups could (and probably will!) be an entire blog of its own. There's lots to like there.<br />
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Like Delve, Planner requires an Office 365 subscription and appropriate access to be granted.<br />
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<u>Keep an Eye on Office 365 and Microsoft for More</u></h3>
Microsoft has moved to a cloud-first model. You see innovative applications like these popping up regularly now. There will likely never be a full on-premises Office client for any of these applications but they are all built to work well on mobile devices, may be integrated in to other Microsoft apps and may show up in the mobile app stores as well.<br />
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The cloud allows Microsoft to quickly develop and market test applications and those that catch on will stick around while others may fall off. You can be sure of one thing, though... you'll see more of these and some may look strange if your only experience with Microsoft is Office.<br />
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(This article is cross posted from my <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/4-shocking-microsoft-products-you-need-know-scott-cameron" target="_blank">LinkedIn Pulse blog</a>)<br />
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