I have two sessions which I will be presenting:

SharePoint Multi-Tenancy in the Enterprise

SharePoint 2010 brought with it a host of additional capabilities for the traditional hosting company to scale while providing the data security required by their customers.  These same features and capabilities can be used inside the enterprise to help enable tiers of service and security to different departments within the enterprise on their own deployment of SharePoint.  In this presentation we dive into a business’s taxonomy and apply multi-tenant capabilities to increase features and security while limiting hardware spend.  In addition we will discuss what needs to be done technically to enable these features in your farm.

Scaling SharePoint Farms

SharePoint was truly designed with large-scale deployments in mind.  During this session we will take a real-world approach to building out a SharePoint farm that serves tens of thousands of users.  It’s not always about adding hardware – it is about adding the right hardware at the right time.  We will discuss the decision and present some tools that help with these decisions.

There are many other fantastic presenters that will be delivering some great sessions. 

If you would like to attend AND save $300, please use the following links and info:

http://www.social-point.com/tec2011

• Use the code: ATGNMSPTGVT
• Put the name “Rackspace” in the referral line

See you there!

So when I do have to travel I try  to get as much done along the way as possible.  I think I may have over-done it.  Here is what I face next week:

5/12 – Travel from San Antonio to Seattle for a (the) SharePoint 2010 launch event. Rackspace is sponsoring the event and a few of us are going up there to attend.  We were invited by Joel Oleson – so why not go?

5/13 – Travel to San Francisco from Seattle to present to a group at the Microsoft office on SharePoint 2010 migration strategies.

5/13 – Hop on my first red-eye from San Fran to Richmond, VA to meet with a Rackspace partner, IronWorks.

5/14 – Drive to Sterling, VA to meet with another Rackspace partner.

5/14 – Drive to Fairfax, VA for the SharePoint Saturday DC Speaker Dinner.

5/15 – Present at the SharePoint Saturday, DC.

5/16 – Travel from DC to home sweet home.

So if you are going to be at one of those locations along the way – please make a point of visiting with me, buy me a coffee, or just wake

me up if I appear to be snoozing!

One aspect that will make the travel more enjoyable is that Rackspace is giving away an iPad at SPSDC which I will get to enjoy in my travels leading up to giving it away.  Stay tuned to this blog as we will be conducting a “Twitter Scavenger Hunt” to give the iPad away!