Office 365 is Microsoft's cloud hosted service that effectively provides Microsoft Exchange, Lync, SharePoint, OneDrive Pro and Yammer to enterprises on a monthly fee basis. Instead of organizations having to setup, configure, patch, upgrade, update, and backup systems, Microsoft takes care of all of the "backend" server tasks. This book was written by world renowned strategy and technology experts Rand Morimoto and Guy Yardeni who have worked with various hosted cloud providers including Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, Box, Dropbox, and Amazon for years. The content of this book goes through...

For the past two decades, organizations have been building out local area networks (LANs) and corporate datacenters, however with the proliferation of the "cloud," organizations now have the choice of leveraging cloud-based resources to host their systems and applications. While small businesses may be able to put "everything" up in the cloud, larger enterprises will likely remain in a hybrid model for a while, with some I.T. resources remaining on-premise, and other I.T. resources being situated in the cloud. Microsoft announced their "CloudOS" strategy where the Windows Server operating...

Microsoft's Azure cloud-based hosted environment is more than just a Platform as a Service (PaaS) or Infrastruture as a Service (IaaS) environment. Rather, Microsoft Azure is highly leveraged by developers of enterprise organizations in their application lifecycle management processes. This book covers the key solution areas where Microsoft Azure helps developers extend their development platforms into the cloud, and not just for Microsoft-based development in .NET or SQL, but also for development on Linux and Windows for Perl, C#, Bash, and Python managed by tools like Puppet, Chef, and...

More commonly known as emails, files, attachments, and documents, Electronically Stored Information (ESI) and the policy management around ESI has drastically changed over the past few years. Not only have laws and regulations taken on better definition on how ESI should be handled, but the proliferation of use of mobile devices and the integration of cloud storage like Box, DropBox, OneDrive and the like impacts how enterprises need to manage their critical digital information. However technology has moved far faster than what organizations have adopted as their ESI policies, and those...