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: Architecture
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 …
Dec
22
Slides from SharePoint Saturday KC
I’m finally getting around to posting the slide deck that presented at SharePoint Saturday KC. The topic was “Architecting for Scale in SharePoint 2010″ It’s a pretty juicy deck with lots of detail that will help you with storage architecture and SQL tuning. It also provides good background on Remote BLOB Storage (RBS) and the …
Oct
24
SP2010 Scalability (4 of 4): In-Place Records Management
Ok, so lets do a little math here. In SharePoint 2007, you can define only 1 Records Center at a time for official files. A single site collection (including a Records Center) in its own content database might contain somewhere around 1 million documents at a meager average of 55KB per document. That keeps us under the …
Oct
24
SP2010 Scalability (1 of 4): Introduction
I have been very fortunate over the last several years in that I’ve had many opprtunities to architect many extremely high scale SharePoint systems. Everything from your standard 3 million document Imaging Repository to systems with 10′s and even more than 100 million documents (thanks to FAST ESP!) As I look back on SharePoint 2003 …
SP2010 ECM Book!
