Does your enterprise have a hybrid cloud strategy or a cloud strategy?

Topic: Does your enterprise have a hybrid cloud strategy or a cloud strategy?

Meeting Abstract:

• 88% of organizations are using the cloud, while 74% of enterprises believe a hybrid cloud model will enable business growth. Are you one of the enterprises with a hybrid cloud strategy?

• A recent study by Gartner found that 8.5 percent of public companies in the sample use cloud email from Microsoft's Office 365 service, while 4.7 percent use Google Apps for Work. The remaining 87 percent of companies surveyed have on-premises, hybrid, hosted or private cloud email managed by smaller vendors.

• Let’s explore why remaining 87% of the companies are reluctant to Office 365, are these just configuration issues or something like compliance, security, records management, data governance etc? Does it reduce the cost over time adopting it and how does is impact on the jobs you are doing today to manage the on-prem environment.

Presenter: Adnan Rafik, Adnan loves designing and architecting enterprise solution. Exchange and O365 is part of his everyday practice for this large enterprise customer. Adnan is certified in all versions of Exchange from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2016. He also holds Office 365 MCSA and a MCT too. He blogs about Exchange Office 365 and he can be reached via twitter @ExchangeITPro. He blog is http://www.ExhangeITPro.com

Sponsor: Microsoft

Where:

New Microsoft office. 11 Times Square, between 42nd & 41st on 8th Avenue. Located across from Port Authority.

Doors Open 5:45pm and dinner arrives at 6pm.

Please visit the official NYExUG website (http://www.nyexug.com/) posting for full meeting details such as Speaker BIO's, Product details, and more.

You can reserve your seat via the official NYExUG website's meeting (www.nyexug.com)or meetup if you show/email your FULL NAME by 10am day of meeting. FREE, Open to Public, and includes dinner.

Agenda

5:45pm - doors open/dinner arrives
6:30pm - main topic
8:30-9pm - raffle items

Folks attending will be able to win a various raffle items including Microsoft software. Free food, and open to all simply by RSVPing.

The meetings occur every 2nd Tuesday of every Month.

At our monthly meetings we have 1 or 2 main presentations covering various topics and discuss troubleshooting problems, adding new features and functionality, reviewing new products, and meeting/networking with other IT people (Exchange Admins, SysAdmins, IT Manager, IT Help Desk Support, CTOs, etc). Great way to learn about Microsoft Exchange Server in small, medium, and enterprise environments.

You can view past presentations on our website: nyexug.com

Past topics include: in-depth look at Microsoft's Redmond Dog-Food lab, live software replication demonstration, live hardware replication demonstration, Multi-site deployment recommendations, Configuring your firewall for Exchange 2003 and SP2 Changes (for the firewall), Moving your Exchange Server to a new Internet Connection, Groove, Exchange 2007, SAN Storage Solutions, Exchange Scaling Up, Server-side anti-spam solutions, Disaster Recovery, Outlook Direct Booking, Troubleshooting Exchange, Intro to Exchange and DNS, etc.