Tips and Tricks for Moving your Applications to the Cloud

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Moving Your Applications to the Cloud


Edison‟s What?


Disruptive Innovation

• Definition: “New market and value network”

• Changes our paradigm


Autonomous Vehicles





Business-Driven IT

While 43 percent of funding currently comes from LOBs, 59 percent of respondents predict this will rise.

-The Impact of Cloud on IT Consumption Models

By 2017 the CMO will Spend More on IT Than the CIO

-Gartner

By 2014, businesses in the United States will spend more than $13 billion on cloud computing and managed hosting services.

-Forbes


Agenda

• Cloud Computing in general

• BI in the cloud

• SharePoint in the cloud

• Continuous Deployment in the cloud


The Cloud Spectrum

Power and Cooling

Physical Security

Networking

Storage

Servers

Virtualization

Operating System

Middleware

Runtime

Data

Applications

Power

Physical Security

Networking

Storage

Servers

Virtualization

Operating System

Middleware

Runtime

Data

Applications

Power

Physical Security

Networking

Storage

Servers

Virtualization

Operating System

Middleware

Runtime

Data

Applications

Power

Physical Security

Networking

Storage

Servers

Virtualization

Operating System

Middleware

Runtime

Data

Applications

On-Premises Infrastructure as a Service Platform as a Service Software as a Service

Config / Isolated Apps Config / Isolated Apps Config / Isolated Apps Config / Isolated Apps


Cloud Computing


Cloud Computing Cost-Advantage Patterns


Business Intelligence


What Constitutes a BI Stack?


Data Warehouse

Data Discovery and ETL

Data Modeling

Data Analysis

Data Visualization

Consumption Experiences


The End User View of BI


On-Premises BI

• IT pros build data warehouse, models/cubes• SQL Server / Analysis Services / Integration Services

• IT ensures data quality, security, availability, visibility

• IT builds business logic using MDX/DAX

• IT builds „THE‟ single source of truth

• Business users open support requests with IT for any changes


Power BI in the Cloud

• Users create and share certified queries (Power Query Information Catalog)

• Users mash up different data sources (Corporate data, SQL Azure, OData, Web Sites…)

• Users make the data more understandable through their analysis and then share with others

• Users can get to on-premises data (if you implement the Data Management Gateway)


The Great Equalizer!


SharePoint BI and Power BI – Side By Side

SQL Azure

Scheduled

Refresh

Web Data

Scheduled

Refresh


SharePoint BI and Power BI – Hybrid Data Access

SQL Azure

Scheduled

Refresh

Web Data

Scheduled

Refresh


Considerations

• Data Management Gateway doesn‟t support Analysis Services (SSAS) models… yet

• Stick with SharePoint on-premises for surfacing Reporting Services (SSRS) reports or Performance Point

• Think about developing your new reports in PowerView


SharePoint


Two Approaches

IaaS SaaS


IaaS


SaaS


IaaS Advantages

• Quickly scale up or out (advantage over on-premises)

• High availability at lower cost

• Allows for farm-based solutions (advantage over SaaS)


IaaS Considerations

• Active Directory• Federation?

• Directory Sync?

• Vendor-specific VM limitations


SaaS Advantages

• Take advantage of the disruptive innovation around connected cloud services


SaaS Considerations

• No farm or sandboxed solutions

• App model (loosely coupled and isolated) only


No Isolation Process Isolation App Isolation

ExamplesMS DOS, Windows3.1, Windows 95,

Mac OS 9

Windows NT, Windows 7,

Mac OS X

Windows Phone 8, Android, iOS

Validated API protects OS

Yes Yes

Process memory protection

Yes Yes

App storage isolation

Yes

Permission Scheme None User-based App-based

SharePoint farm Solution

SharePoint App


The App Model Can Do It

• Write RESTful web services to integrate with back-end data or perform custom logic

• Write HTML and JavaScript to call into the SharePoint API or your custom web services


Example: Search Driven Publishing


Continuous Delivery


Source Control

Unit Tests

Automated Build

Auto Deploy to Test Environment

QA

UAT

QA / UAT Approval

Auto Deploy to Production

Continuous Delivery

Continuous Integration

Continuous Testing

Continuous Deployment


Cloud Considerations for Continuous Delivery

• Agile is required• Small, independent user stories

• PaaS allows for large strides in automated deployment• Example: Staging and Production

• Treat your business users like SaaS customers


IaaS Advantages and Considerations

• Team Foundation Server• Versioned

• Process template and work item customization

• Scalability, reliability (advantage over on-premises)


SaaS Advantages and Considerations

• Visual Studio Online• Not Versioned

• Web-based test case management• Author and execute remotely

• Cloud Load Testing

• No AD integration (yet)

• PowerShell is your friend


Conclusion


General Considerations

• Loosely coupled architectures• App model

• RESTful architecture

• Iterate• Farm solutions to the app model

• Reporting Services to PowerView

• Move client/server LOB apps to loosely coupled SaaS model

• Treat your business customers like SaaS customers

• Technical debt must be paid in order to take advantage of a disruptive innovation.


References• SharePoint Conference 2014 – Speakers and sessions

• What Does The Rise Of Cloud Services Mean For Enterprise Governance?

• Windows Azure Architectures for SharePoint 2013

• Introduction to Data Management Gateway

• Share queries in the Power BI Data Catalog

• Data Analysis Expressions and MDX

• By 2017 the CMO will Spend More on IT Than the CIO

• Continuous Delivery in the Cloud

• Visual Studio Online (VSO) vs. Team Foundation Server (TFS)

http://www.colligo.com/blog/enterprise-content-management/what-does-the-rise-of-cloud-services-mean-for-enterprise-governance/?utm_campaign=newsletter-2014-02-25&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=649b6ccd97704b7baf1b6144e27a9674&elqCampaignId=182

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn635309(v=office.15).aspx



http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/office365-sharepoint-online-enterprise-help/introduction-to-data-management-gateway-HA104079171.aspx

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/office365-sharepoint-online-enterprise-help/share-queries-in-the-power-bi-data-catalog-HA104079182.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff487170(v=sql.105).aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff487170(v=sql.105).aspx

http://my.gartner.com/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=202&mode=2&PageID=5553&ref=webinar-rss&resId=1871515

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https://blog.codecentric.de/en/2012/04/continuous-delivery-in-the-cloud-part1-overview/

http://msmvps.com/blogs/vstsblog/archive/2014/03/10/visual-studio-online-vso-vs-team-foundation-server-tfs.aspx


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