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Skype for Business Server vs. Online
Are there any documents available which explain in detail why an organization should setup a Skype for Business infrastructure instead of using the Cloud service ? i mean to setup and maintain an...
Here is the session at Ignite that will talk about vNext https://myignite.microsoft.com/sessions/53241. Hopefully the content will be available afterwards.
As for reasons why people will still want on-premise is that there could be other integrations that require a Trusted Application (rather than federation). Some organisations aren't ready to move their infrastructure to the cloud and put all their eggs in one basket. Some are just doing Exchange but keeping SfB on premise due to sheer amount of users/traffic/calls they do.
Also with owning your own SfB infrastructure, the good and bad thing is that you are in control of it and the network to an certain degree. You can patch and reboot servers as and when fit's with your requirements rather than taking an upgrade/feature set when the cloud is upgraded. I'm also seeing more private clouds of SfB, so a Service Provider hosting and owning SfB for customers as a dedicated instance.
As for reasons why people will still want on-premise is that there could be other integrations that require a Trusted Application (rather than federation). Some organisations aren't ready to move their infrastructure to the cloud and put all their eggs in one basket. Some are just doing Exchange but keeping SfB on premise due to sheer amount of users/traffic/calls they do.
Also with owning your own SfB infrastructure, the good and bad thing is that you are in control of it and the network to an certain degree. You can patch and reboot servers as and when fit's with your requirements rather than taking an upgrade/feature set when the cloud is upgraded. I'm also seeing more private clouds of SfB, so a Service Provider hosting and owning SfB for customers as a dedicated instance.