Summary

Paperless collaboration and content management systems are increasingly popular and indispensible tools that large and enterprise organizations rely on to deal with explosive growth in digital content, increasing needs to facilitate collaboration among employees, and stringent demands by regulators for thorough and quick access to data. Microsoft ® Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides these much-needed collaboration, business process and content management capabilities. The solution for SharePoint deployments described in this white paper uses a building block architecture and the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family. It allows IT administrators to optimize the 2000 family to provide a common interface to complex SharePoint deployments. The building block architecture designed around the 2000 family is scalable, highly available and easy to manage. This white paper provides calculations on how to size a SharePoint environment, step-by-step instructions for configuring and deploying the 2000 family storage system, and guidance on validating a new SharePoint deployment. Contributors The information included in this document represents the expertise, feedback and suggestions of a number of skilled practitioners. The author recognizes and sincerely thanks the following contributors and reviewers o