Key Situations Where Replication is Required for Your SharePoint Implementation

Your SharePoint implementation is, or soon will be, a mission critical application that is essential for completing the work of your organization. In order for workers to be efficient and satisfied, the storing and retrieving of SharePoint information must be fast, logical and reliable. Management will require that the implementation be secure and cost efficient. Because of these requirements there are five situations where replication is required for your SharePoint implementation.

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Geographically Separated Workforce

• People in distributed locations want high performance so they can achieve maximum productivity. Local access is the best way to achieve superior performance. Intelligent and targeted replication saves time and money by allowing fast and easy access to information for workers, customers and partners.
• Ensuring uptime regardless of network conditions is essential for operations that rely on SharePoint. If a network link is down a user community will not have access to their information. Replication to multiple SharePoint servers will provide the best solution for everyone by allowing constant access for the majority of users which insures an environment where they can be productive.
• Response times for large file access will be dramatically improved for distributed users if they are accessing a local instance of SharePoint. Faster storage and retrieval times means more time for people to do their work and leads to increased acceptability of the system.

• More often than not, different divisions in an organization will want to have their own locally controlled SharePoint servers but have targeted content replicating back and forth to all the SharePoint servers in the organization. Providing logical storage of information makes users more productive and efficient because they can find what they are looking for quickly.
• Replication is ideal for staging content and then pushing it out to an Extranet on a scheduled basis. This reduces the cost of having to manually move and validate content and reduces the cost of correcting errors that occur during a manual process.
• Additional SharePoint servers are often implemented for Quality Assurance and Development environments. These will typically be subsets of the production environment. Replication removes the cost associated with manually moving data and the cost of correcting errors that occur in the manual process.

• When organizations upgrade their network they will need new instances of SharePoint to upgrade existing servers and ensure continued operations. Replication is used to synchronize server content after the upgrade is completed. This automated process minimizes errors and creates organizational efficiency by maintaining content availability for users.

• Replication can be used to solve specific issues when designing failover solutions for various SharePoint environments. Avoiding down time saves time and money by allowing workers, customers and partners constant access to their information

• The dilemma of high infrastructure costs or inefficient performance has been addressed by IT experts in various ways. Despite their best efforts speed, accessibility, fragmentation and bandwidth problems still prevail. Replication provides the optimum cost solution by allowing selected information to be distributed based on activity. This insures that content is close to the people that need it which leads to optimal performance.

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