> I'd prefer that any money my company might be saving be deducted from my paycheck if it would mean they'd get off of Google apps.
Sysadmin here. How much are you willing to pay? I'll need at least 2 domain servers, exchange server, backup server/device/nas/tapes, etc to give you a stable and recoverable environment. I'll need an air conditioned server room/closet as well and a decent UPS. We'll need to pay for offsite data storage as well. How many people? We'll need CALs for each user. Licensing even for a trivial environment is easily 5 figures. Not to mention my salary.
I guess you could go with some shitty MSP and small business server, but not if you actually value your company, uptimes, and data.
Cloud services aren't big because they're good. They're big because they're cheaper than guys like me and all the stuff we work with. Your boss understands this. He's expecting you to deal with it.
If he's unhappy with cloud responsiveness, I doubt he'll be happy with yet another remote provider. Considering google apps are best in class, I'm not sure anything but a local approach would work here.
>so there is no need for a local installation.
At the very least, bossman would have to spring for some Office licenses. Oh, and probably a TS server and other toys so Joe Worker can work from home.
Maybe office365 would work better for them? On /r/sysadmin its nothing but horror stories though. Also who do you fire when they lose all your data or you can't get mail for a week? MS's techs will be happy to write "please do the needful" helpdesk responses and laugh because you're such small potatoes to them.
Sysadmin here. How much are you willing to pay? I'll need at least 2 domain servers, exchange server, backup server/device/nas/tapes, etc to give you a stable and recoverable environment. I'll need an air conditioned server room/closet as well and a decent UPS. We'll need to pay for offsite data storage as well. How many people? We'll need CALs for each user. Licensing even for a trivial environment is easily 5 figures. Not to mention my salary.
I guess you could go with some shitty MSP and small business server, but not if you actually value your company, uptimes, and data.
Cloud services aren't big because they're good. They're big because they're cheaper than guys like me and all the stuff we work with. Your boss understands this. He's expecting you to deal with it.