Sitecore Experience Platform hosted on Azure provides a concise overview of moving a Sitecore implementation to Microsoft Azure. Key points include: - Sitecore Experience Platform version 8 and hosting on Azure can maximize return on investment. - Sitecore offers a software-as-a-service hosting model on Azure called Sitecore Experience Cloud which includes collection and reporting databases and processing/reporting services with customer data ownership. - Deploying Sitecore on Azure provides options like SQL Azure, Azure staging and production slots, and ability to readily scale to high workloads.

1. Sitecore Experience Platform hosted on Azure
Presented by: Jerry Norman-Nott, SitecoreTechnical Partner MangerANZ
jnn@Sitecore.net
May 2015

2. 23% Growth
81% Adoption

3. Sitecore Experience
Platform 8
SitecoreCloud
Hosting
Sitecore on Azure
Platform as a Service

4. Moving to Sitecore v8 on Azure will
maximise your return on investment

5. Agenda
Sitecore Experience Platform v8
Sitecore hosted on Microsoft Azure
Migration justification & resources
Questions

6. 3.0
2001, Sitecore Established
First Commercial Release
Patented LayoutTechnology
6.1
2009, Feature Rich EnterpriseCMS Platform
Online Marketing System
Disruptive MarketingTechnology
7.0
Content Foundation
StoreAnything
Search andTagging
7.1, 7.2
User Interface Foundation
Process Based Framework
(SPEAK)
7.5
Data Foundation
Experience Database
Experience Profile
Laying the Foundation
8.0
CXM Functional Foundation
ExperienceAnalytics
Segmentation

8. Single CustomerView
Social
CRM
Media
Website
POS eDM

9. IntegratingCustomer Data
Social
CRM
Media
Website
POS eDM

10. Sitecore® Experience Database™
xDB
Social
CRM
Media
Website
POS eDM

11. Sitecore® Experience Profile

12. Sitecore® Experience Database™

13. Testing PersonalisationValue

14. Testing and Optimisation

15. Sitecore® Experience Database™
REPORTING DATA
PROCESSING
REPORTINGSERVICE
COLLECTION
SITECOREEXPERIENCECLOUD
REPORTING DATA
PROCESSING
REPORTINGSERVICE
COLLECTION
ON-PREMISE
Social
CRM
Media
Website
POS eDM

16. Sitecore® Experience Cloud
SITECOREEXPERIENCECLOUD
REPORTING DATA
PROCESSING
REPORTINGSERVICE
COLLECTION
Sitecore supported Software-as-a-Service
(SaaS) offering hosted on Azure.
Includes collection and reporting database
and processing and reporting services.
Complete ownership of customer data.

17. Hosting Models
On-Prem Server Cloud Managed PlatformCloud Virtual Machines

18. DeploymentOptions for Sitecore on Azure

19. DELIVERYMANAGEMENT
SQL Azure
xDB
ee
Azure Staging &
Production Slots
SQL VM
DEPLOYMENT

22. www.sitecoreonazure.net

23. Sitecore on Azure Masterclass

24. Worked Sample

25. Features:
• Highly available
scenario
• Dedicated UAT
server
• 99.95% SLA on all
non-development
environments
• Readily scalable to
high workloads

26. Worked Sample // Components
On Premise Components Azure Components
Hardware 4 Production & 5 non-prod Sitecore Servers
2 Production & 3 non-prod SQL Servers
3 Load balancers
3TB local storage
Tape Backup library
Software SQL Server (28 cores)
Backup software
Traffic 4TB egress bandwidth
1M visitors per month
Other Network engineer (pro rata)
Power
Primary & DR facilities
Offsite storage
Components 7 CloudService Instances
8 Azure SQL Databases
3TB local storage
Traffic Manager
Redis Cache
Traffic 4TB egress bandwidth
1M visitors per month
Other Network engineer (pro rata)

27. $0K
$200K
$400K
$600K
$800K
$1,000K
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7
On Premise (Total) Azure (Total)
Worked Sample // Expenditure Profile

29. Sitecore Experience Platform on Azure
Presented by Jerry Norman-Nott -
jnn@sitecore.net