SharePoint 2010 on Cloud

Many organizations want to spend very less on maintaining their infrastructure. So, many of them opt for Virtualization or Cloud. In this blog, I am going to discuss more on hosting options available on Cloud and best approaches your organization can take. Also I will provide pricing options…

1. Amazon EC2
2. Rackspace Cloud - Cloud Servers
3. Windows Azure - VM Roles

Case Studies:

• Amazon's Corporate IT Deploys SharePoint 2010 to the AWS Cloud

Amazon's Corporate IT deployed its highly mission-critical IT application - the company's intranet - to the AWS Cloud. The whitepaper discusses the deployment criteria, security requirements, architecture and implementation of the mission-critical application. It not only discusses how they were able to take advantage of security features of AWS and Microsoft SharePoint 2010 (and Microsoft SQL Server 2008) and deploy an application that involves highly sensitive data but also shares several lessons learned in a candid manner. Download Whitepaper (PDF).

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SharePoint 2010 Licensing Costs

*** The following information is gathered from publicly available Costs from Microsoft. This should be used only for reference to get ballpark costs for SharePoint licensing. If your company has Volume Licensing or Licensing Agreement with Microsoft, prices provided may vary. Costs are in US dollars. This information captured based on prices available over internet as on May 2011.

SharePoint 2010 Licensing Costs
Windows Server 2008 R2
Standard	$1,209.00	includes 10 CALs
Enterprise	$3,999.00	includes 25 CALs
For Extra Windows Server 2008 R2 CALs *** CALs 5 Pack - $199.00 ***CALs 20Pack - $799.00
SQL Server 2008 R2
Standard	$1,849.00	includes 5 CALs
Enterprise	$13,969.00	includes 25 CALs
For Extra SQL CAL *** CAL - $205 (approx. includes Software Assurance)
SharePoint 2010 Server - Internal Implementation (Intranet)
SharePoint 2010	$4,926.00	Each SharePoint Server should have SharePoint 2010 License. Each Person accessing SharePoint need a Standard CAL. To access enterprise features need to buy Enterprise
Standard CALs	$95.00
Enterprise CALs	$83.00
SharePoint 2010 Server - Internet Implementation
Standard	$11,793.00	Each SharePoint Server should have SharePoitn 2010 License. No need for extra CALs if it is accessible over Internet.
Enterprise	$41,392.00
References
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/pricing.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/R2-editions.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/pricing.aspx http://community.bamboosolutions.com/blogs/sharepoint-2010-price-calculator/default.aspx

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