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Microsoft SharePoint®  Server 2010 allows users around the globe to share documents and information in a collaborative environment. While SharePoint Server provides a rich suite of team productivity tools, in geographically disperse deployments users may still encounter issues which can impose on overall application performance.  Riverbed worked closely with the Microsoft technical teams to validate interoperability with SharePoint 2010. The ...

There are many decisions to be made in the process of building or extending a SharePoint environment. You want to give your users what they want and need in an easy to use, efficient interface. This leads to design and planning involving, among other things, the appropriate hardware and server configuration to ensure that SharePoint can be an effective and well used collaboration and communication platform. The challenge, of course, is thinking throug...

As your business needs become more dynamic, monitoring systems will be key to understanding how applications fulfill business needs and your ability to provide governance will determine the success level of your entire enterprise. With complexity growing at such a hyperbolic rate, in the future, automated application discovery and dependency mapping will not just be useful —it will be mandatory.           ...

Google currently operates eight massive data centers in the U.S. and Europe. It is also constructing new data centers in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan right now, but one glaring blank spot on the company’s map is Latin America, where the number of Internet users continues to grow rapidly. To get its servers closer to these users, Google has now announced that its next data center will be located in Quilicura, Chile, a municipality that�...

By next July Microsoft means to hire another thousand people in China where it already has a staff of 4,500, according to what Ralph Haupter, CEO of Microsoft's Greater China unit, told the press in Beijing. The hires will be in R&D, sales and marketing and services. It also means to increase its $500 million-a-year R&D budget there by 15%. That would include a 15% increase in Microsoft's 3,000 Chinese researchers who mostly work on products...

This technical white paper covers the the vSphere® Storage Appliance (VSA) architecture, deployment of a VSA cluster, and basic monitoring and management. Discover that VSA is resilient and easy to deploy, while enabling you to use advanced vSphere features like vSphere HA, vMotion®, and vSphere DRS.       ...

This document provides guidelines for configuring a standard Windows 7 image to be used within a VMware Viewâ„¢ environment, providing administrators with the information necessary to create a standard image of Windows 7 leveraging the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit or by utilizing a script-based approach to optimize a traditionally installed Windows 7 virtual machine.             ...

For this white paper, IDC performed an in-depth analysis of the business value of VMware View, defined as the expected ROI associated with the use of the solution as a platform for the targeted deployment of a virtual desktop infrastructure.               ...

This whitepaper provides an overview on lessons learned from the 2011 Japanese Crisis and outlines the ten key lessons that can help you strengthen your business continuity and disaster recovery plans.                 ...

Learn how small and midsized businesses are increasingly adopting virtualisation to deliver consolidation, improve data back up and disaster recovery and increase security with an in-depth new paper from the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). Learn directly from your peer’s experiences and see why VMware’s solutions are perfect for the growing and ambitious business.             ...