06/07/2012
There are countless reasons for an organization to deploy to the cloud with any combination of the above strategies, but regardless, an organization wants to move forward with confidence knowing the option it has selected best fits their specific business needs. One of the compelling scenarios for the cloud and virtualization is this idea that you can deploy a solution transparently on a Virtual Hard Disk (VHD). One minute, the application is running on a machine with Hyper-V, and the next it’s extended into Windows Azure. The cloud allows a user’s story – a beautiful story of agility and elasticity – to change at a moment’s notice. This is the basis for many to make the move to the cloud. This really shines when talking about High Availability and Disaster Recovery scenarios. For example, an organization can have an on-premise farm replicated to a virtual standby within Azure. Because the machines on the cloud are “dormant”, the customer incurs no costs while they aren’t in use. However, in the event of a disaster, the machines spin up and automatically requisition the necessary resources. Productivity continues and the organization runs off of the virtual environment until the physical farm is restored; then the standby farm is put back into its standby state until called again. One question often asked is, “Will your tool be there for me no matter what?” The answer, of course, should be yes. It is this very question we considered when developing AvePoint’s product roadmap for the cloud. Our solutions are built with the understanding that a customer’s workload may exist on premise today, move into a hybrid environment tomorrow, and end up completely virtualized for any number of reasons at any time. Just as their SharePoint deployment is transparent to the end-user, the management tools for it should be just as unified and transparent. DocAve Online for SharePoint as well as our support for Windows Azure Spring Framework provides the same feature rich, enterprise grade toolset all within the same graphical user interface as our on-premises version. So, no matter where you’re managing an on-premise farm, a hybrid scenario utilizing Office 365 as an extranet, or Azure for Infrastructure-as-a-Service, AvePoint can support you.Shedding Light on AvePoint’s Cloud Strategy
There are countless reasons for an organization to deploy to the cloud with any combination of the above strategies, but regardless, an organization wants to move forward with confidence knowing the option it has selected best fits their specific business needs. One of the compelling scenarios for the cloud and virtualization is this idea that you can deploy a solution transparently on a Virtual Hard Disk (VHD). One minute, the application is running on a machine with Hyper-V, and the next it’s extended into Windows Azure. The cloud allows a user’s story – a beautiful story of agility and elasticity – to change at a moment’s notice. This is the basis for many to make the move to the cloud. This really shines when talking about High Availability and Disaster Recovery scenarios. For example, an organization can have an on-premise farm replicated to a virtual standby within Azure. Because the machines on the cloud are “dormant”, the customer incurs no costs while they aren’t in use. However, in the event of a disaster, the machines spin up and automatically requisition the necessary resources. Productivity continues and the organization runs off of the virtual environment until the physical farm is restored; then the standby farm is put back into its standby state until called again. One question often asked is, “Will your tool be there for me no matter what?” The answer, of course, should be yes. It is this very question we considered when developing AvePoint’s product roadmap for the cloud. Our solutions are built with the understanding that a customer’s workload may exist on premise today, move into a hybrid environment tomorrow, and end up completely virtualized for any number of reasons at any time. Just as their SharePoint deployment is transparent to the end-user, the management tools for it should be just as unified and transparent. DocAve Online for SharePoint as well as our support for Windows Azure Spring Framework provides the same feature rich, enterprise grade toolset all within the same graphical user interface as our on-premises version. So, no matter where you’re managing an on-premise farm, a hybrid scenario utilizing Office 365 as an extranet, or Azure for Infrastructure-as-a-Service, AvePoint can support you.
Shyam Oza brings over 15 years of expertise in product management, marketing, delivery, and support, with a strong emphasis on data resilience, security, compliance, and business continuity. Throughout his career, Shyam has undertaken diverse roles, from teaching video game design to modernizing legacy enterprise software and business models by fully leveraging SaaS technology and Agile methodologies. He holds a B.A. in Information Systems from the New Jersey Institute of Technology.