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SharePoint Momentum. 17K+ Customers, 100M Licenses. “SharePoint is the fastest-growing product in Microsoft’s history... And this is just the beginning: SharePoint continues to grow as customers are just beginning to apply it to a wide array of business issues and processes.”
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SharePoint Momentum 17K+ Customers, 100M Licenses “SharePoint is the fastest-growing product in Microsoft’s history... And this is just the beginning: SharePoint continues to grow as customers are just beginning to apply it to a wide array of business issues and processes.” - AMR Research, April 22, 2008 Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrants, Forrester WaveTM Sites Composites Communities Continued Platform and Application Innovation 4,000+ Partners Today across Collaboration, Content Management and Search Insights Content Search
SharePoint Sites Engage people across your value chain using one platform Unified Communications And Collaboration Business Intelligence Enterprise Content Management Publishing standards (XML, XHTML…) Accessibility standards (WCAG 2.0) Website and Security Framework Business Data Catalog Open XML File Formats Extensible UI Workflow Search Customers Employees Partners Internet Intranet Extranet Secured, Well-Managed Infrastructure
Unified and Optimized Access to the Data Center BIG-IP Edge Gateway DMZ Internet www.abc.com Datacenter Resouces Web Accl. Intranet //abc Access Extranet Extranet.abc.com WAN Opt. Utilize existing user directories • One solution to manage all access policies regardless of access network • Capacity and performance to secure all user traffic • Optimizes application delivery to remote and mobile users • Improves quality of real-time applications; soft phones and streaming media
Application health and availability • Traffic management starts with accurate health • Multi-port/protocol monitoring HTTP Bad 7 User 6 Transport layer reports health, but users cannot access SharePoint 5 TCP Good 4 Transport • Real-time connection tables • Intelligent load-balancing method
Configuring persistence profiles in BIG-IP LocalTrafficProfilesPersistenceCreate Source IP and SSL ID Cookie
Site level health • BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM) • Starts with good server level health within 1 site • Includes external link health • Disaster Recovery and Active/Active Users Global Traffic Manager Site A Site B
Considerations for application access BIG-IP EG (Edge Gateway) • Next generation remote access solution • Converged security and acceleration services platform • Optimize access for mobile users and remote offices • New BIG-IP Solution for the Network Edge • Includes new BIG-IP Edge Client solution • Up to 8 Gbps, 600 log-ins per second, 40,000 users • Mobile devices, notebooks, PCs supported • Redirect for mobile users (SharePoint Mobile View) Edge Portal
New BIG-IP Edge Client • Flexible deployment: • Mac, Windows, iPhone, iPad • Security • End-point security • Protected workspace • Mobility • Smart Connection roaming • Uninterrupted application sessions • Acceleration • Dynamic compression • Client-side cache • Client-side QoS • FREE
Unified Access to SharePoint • Competitor SSL VPN = 211s = 47s • BIG-IP Edge Gateway = 114s = 16s Twice as Fast User Downloads First Time Repeat Test includes a user logging onto VPN, navigating through SharePoint content, and downloading a 4 MB document
Considerations for application layer security BIG-IP ASM (Application Security Module) SC Magazine's 2010 Reader Trust Award for Best Web Application Security solution