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 the most common questions by organizations looking to choose Microsoft Office 365 for their enterprise, and Rand and Guy provide real world answers to these questions based on their hands-on day to day experience with Office 365.

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 system they've had for years has been optimized to run both on-premise and in the cloud. Additionally, Microsoft now provides organizations the ability to "stretch" their on-premise datacenters to include cloud-based resources, and manage the cloud services as if they were a direct extension of the organization's internal network. In this book, Microsoft experts Rand Morimoto, Chris Amaris, and Guy Yardeni share new world I.T. strategies how organizations are creating hybrid datacenter networks, how Windows Server systems on-premise can be replicated to guest sessions in Windows Azure in the cloud, and where Microsoft's System Center management tools fit in to managing the Hybrid Datacenter environment.