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This chapter covers some of the pros and cons of moving to the cloud for organi- zations and personal use. We also cover some of the specific requirements of the Microsoft Office 365 offering.
Office 365 constantly is being updated, upgraded, and developed. The user inter- face on any individual product can change frequently. The concepts are the same, but if you see something a little bit different than what is shown in a screenshot or described in this book, then Microsoft has made some changes.
Cloud Attraction
FIGURE 17-1:
When infrastructure is on premise, IT spends time keeping the lights blinking green, and the business users spend time pestering the IT team for help.
One of the biggest pain points in the corporate world is the interaction between business users and tech people. The business users couldn’t care less about technol- ogy and just want the ability to do their job easier and more efficiently. The tech folks want to provide the best solution possible for the business users but get bogged down with time-intensive technical tasks. This concept is illustrated in Figure 17-1.
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The cloud attempts to alleviate this tension by offloading the infrastructure to some- one else — Microsoft in the case of Office 365. This frees up the tech people and lets them spend time optimizing the software for their business users instead of keeping the lights blinking green. Business users are happy because they get a better solution and IT people are happy because their valuable time isn’t wasted searching the Internet for instructions on installing and configuring the latest software patch to fix a particular problem. This new paradigm is illustrated in Figure 17-2.