Application Ready Network Guide Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007

APPLICATION READY NETWORK GUIDE
MICROSOFT OFFICE
SHAREPOINT SERVER 2007Comprehensive Microsoft-Ready infrastructure that enhances the security, availability and performance of SharePoint 2007 deploymentsSUMMARY ® ®Hundreds of organizations around the world use Microsoft SharePoint with
over 80 million implementations, allowing them to develop intelligent portals
that seamlessly connect users, teams, and knowledge. With the release of
Microsoft Of? ce SharePoint Server 2007, F5 has speci? cally developed and tested
a comprehensive Application Ready infrastructure that enhances the security,
availability and performance of SharePoint deployments, whether it's over the
LAN or across a global WAN.
Not only are organizations adding new and more robust, dynamic applications
like SharePoint Server 2007 to their IT infrastructure, but the focus is starting to
shift from simply adding boxes and installing a new application to the network,
to looking at the network as a whole, and optimizing the entire infrastructure.
As network-wide optimization becomes a priority, organizations are using tools 1like the Microsoft Infrastructure Optimization model to help guide their strategy
from a basic IT infrastructure that is overly complex, costly and dif? cult to manage,
to a more dynamic infrastructure where costs are controlled, processes are fully
automated, and integration and collaboration between users and applications is
pervasive. F5 has a complete suite of application infrastructure technologies that
can help simplify infrastructure and management, reduce costs and increase ROI,
and improve security for SharePoint Server 2007 deployments, as well as the entire
network and other applications. In essence, F5 has designed an integrated and
adaptable application-ready network.1See Microsoft Infrastructure Optimization model
2F5 APPLICATION READY NETWORK GUIDE: MICROSOFT OFFICE SHAREPOINT 2007
Bene? ts and F5 value
For users in remote of? ces, F5 has been shown Of? ce SharePoint 2007User Experience and (in seconds)to improve SharePoint application performance Application Performance over high latency links on the order of 5 times, One of the most important things to consider while reducing bandwidth by 30 times. F5's 50swhen deploying a centralized application like TCP optimizations also dramatically improve Microsoft SharePoint (and the one most often the reliability of WAN communications. Dial- Defaultleft to post deployment troubleshooting) is end up users connecting to Microsoft SharePoint 40s F5 Optimizeduser experience; will the application provide Portal Server experienced connection reliability the necessary functionality in a timely manner? improvements of more than 40% while timeout If an application is performing poorly because errors were reduced by greater than 80%. 30sof con? guration or infrastructure problems, These optimizations are particularly effective end users will often abandon the application when delivering services over congested links. and of? cial online processes and resort back to And F5 has also worked to make the 20smanual workarounds. Conversely, improving con? guration of acceleration technologies the performance of the application often leads simpler with the addition of application-speci? c to an increase in application adoption and user policies. Simply choose the custom-built policy 10sproductivity. for Microsoft SharePoint from a list for out-F5 ensures the successful implementation of-the-box acceleration. F5 is the only vendor of SharePoint by providing technology that to bring practical and economic simplicity 0sguarantees the most ef? cient network possible. to support acceleration for both private Because F5's unique TMOS operating system is (symmetric) and public (asymmetric users) under a full proxy, it can optimize any end point that one management network. F5 Optimizations provide connects through the system. As a full broker a 5x increase in application When applications are responsive, especially of communications, the system optimizes performance over core applications like SharePoint, adoption communication for every single end device high latency linksrates increase and users are more satis? ed and communicating through it. This optimization productive. This ... [download for more]