<p>When I joined Microsoft back in 2006 to help build out the Microsoft Managed Services offerings a precursor to the SharePoint Online platform within Office365 I spent a good deal of time talking with customers and partners about improving the performance of SharePoint across multiple locations: from deployment and architectural best-practices, to content synchronization and WAN optimization.</p><p>I always loved the customer interactions, working directly with the end user and administrators, and pushing that feedback back to the product teams. In my current role as a technology evangelist, I spend a good portion of my time with customers and partners, listening to their experiences, providing guidance where I can, and doing my best to surface questions and issues when I don't know the answer.</p><p>One of the most common issues that customers raise is around optimizing their SharePoint environments. People want to get the most out of the investments they've already made, and while many organizations are slowly making plans to move their data assets into the cloud as a way to reduce infrastructure costs, the reality is that the cloud is not yet a viable option for most of their intellectual property and so they're looking for ways to improve performance, reduce storage costs and implement stronger disaster recovery and high-availability solutions with existing on premises infrastructure, or through hybrid solutions that will allow them to start taking advantage of cloud cost efficiencies.Optimizing SharePoint for Global Deployments</p><p>In the #CollabTalk Tweet Jam held last month, we tackled the topic of geographically-dispersed teams and SharePoint, touching on the areas of distributed management, performance, and synchronization all of which factor into the themes of SharePoint disaster recovery and high-availability, among others.</p><p><a href="http://www.cmswire.com/cms/information-management/insights-into-sharepoint-replication-023569.php">Keep reading...</a></p>