This is the Bonus Track of the English Week @ SharePointPodcast.de with experts interviews recorded at the European SharePoint Conference 2011 in Berlin.
Today we have two guests in the show.
Wilco Turnhout is responsible for marketing and sales at Attini Software. Attini extends SharePoint’s out of box social features with the Attini Social Suite, a collection of enhanced SharePoint templates for blogs, talk, video, news, and more.
Wes Bryan is a Senior Product Manager at bambooSolutions. Bamboo offers a wide variety of add-ons, tools, webparts, and solution suites for SharePoint.
To BLOB or Not to BLOB? Content Scalability and Storage Optimization
SharePoint and SQL Server offer several methods with which you can externalize the BLOBs—the files that are stored in libraries and as attachments—to reduce the size of your content databases. BLOB externalization offers benefits beyond reduced storage cost—benefits that may surprise you! But there’s a lot of hype and misunderstanding about BLOB externalization, which is neither a silver bullet nor evil incarnate. Take away a balanced, intelligent, detailed understanding of the technologies and issues surrounding BLOB externalization. Dive deep into the performance impact, scalability implications, and critical considerations for backup and restore, high availability, and disaster recovery. To BLOB or not to BLOB? There are no easy answers, but after this session you will have what it takes to maximize the potential of BLOB externalization in your storage architecture.
Wish I’d Have Known That Sooner! SharePoint Insanity Demystified
After years of helping organizations around the world to deploy and implement SharePoint, Dan Holme has found that there are certain pain points that almost everyone encounters. Some are confusing concepts. Some are bad decisions driven by Microsoft’s UI and documentation. Some are due to unnecessarily complex terminology. And some because there are things that SharePoint should do, but can’t. In this session, Dan will share the most common and problematic scenarios, and their solutions, with the goal of saving you pain, time, and money. Think of this session as “Lessons Learned,” “Best Practices,” or “From the Field” on steroids. Whether you’re new to SharePoint or a seasoned veteran, in this grab-bag session there will be treasures for you!