I recently presented a session at SharePoint Conference 2011 titled “Scaling SharePoint Document and Records Centers to Terabytes and Beyond”. I was quite happy with how the session played out and I wanted to thank those of you who attended for the many kind tweets regarding my session. I had hoped that the “collateral” links …
Category Archive: Scalability
Sep
02
SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Content Management
I am proud to announce the release SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Content Management published by Wrox (Wiley)! This book is the combined effort of 4 authors, myself included. As my first venture into the world of book writing, I didn’t want to tackle an entire book. As it turns out writing 4 chapters was quite a …
Aug
02
Speaking at SharePoint Conference 2011 in Anaheim, CA
I’m looking forward to October 3-6 in Anaheim, CA where I’ve been accepted to speak at SharePoint Conference 2011! I’ll be presenting a session titled “Scaling SharePoint Records Centers to Terabytes and Beyond – Part 1”. In this session, I’ll be taking you through architecture guidance for scaling record centers to incredible sizes from the …
Jul
19
New Content Database and RBS Sizing Guidance
I was eagerly awaiting some new content database and RBS storage guidance that I had heard was coming from Microsoft. Of course, they managed to release the new info when I was out on vacation. Then I had planned on transferring my blog to a new hosting provider and didn’t want to put out any …
Feb
04
Microsoft Whitepaper: Remote BLOB Storage Whitepaper
Last fall I was asked by the Microsoft SQL Server RBS Dev team to author a whitepaper on the topic of Remote BLOB Storage (RBS). The whitepaper has now been published. Here is a direct download link to the RBS Whitepaper. The document reference was originally featured on this page. RBS is a powerful SQL Server 2008 R2 …
Feb
03
European SharePoint Best Practices Conference: April 11-13
I am honored to once again be invited to speak at the European SharePoint Best Practices Conference in London. The conference is being held from April 11th to the 13th Last year a pesky little volcano in Iceland completely wrecked international travel between the US and Europe for several week. God willing, the volcano will …
Aug
02
SharePoint Saturday Denver and RBS Updates
Wow. Long break from blog posting! Sorry about that. Once again, duty calls. I was booked solid from March until mid-summer. Then it was vacation time. So there was little time to generate meaningful blog post content. What happened in the meantime? Well, Microsoft released this tiny little server product called SharePoint Server 2010 and …
SP2010 ECM Book!
