This is off topic, but given my recent posts about SharePoint for legal project management,[1] I found Mark Gerow's recently article in Law Technology News about virtualizing SharePoint for law firm deployments to be quite timely.[2] Mr. Gerow heads the application development team at Fenwick & West.
Mr. Gerow does not discuss how or why Fenwick & West uses SharePoint. He instead focuses on the benefits of virtualizing SharePoint extranets and the challenges faced and overcome when migrating from physical to virtual servers. The article is refreshingly detailed and should be of interest to law firm IT managers currently running SharePoint on physical servers.
[1] Paul C. Easton, SharePoint for Legal Project Management--A Retrospective, Legal Project Management, Jan. 7, 2010, http://legalprojectmanagement.info/2010/01/sharepoint-for-legal-project-management--a-retrospective.html (last visited on Jan. 9, 2010); Paul C. Easton, Caselawg: Bringing SharePoint to Legal Project Management, Legal Project Management, January 7, 2010http://legalprojectmanagement.info/2010/01/caselawg-bringing-sharepoint-to-legal-project-management.html (last visited January 9, 2010).
[2] Mark Gerow, Virtualizing SharePoint, Law Technology News, Jan. 08, 2010, http://www.law.com/jsp/lawtechnologynews/PubArticleLTN.jsp?id=1202437644142&src=EMC-Email&et=editorial&bu=LTN&pt=Law%20Technology%20News&cn=20100108&kw=Virtualizing%20SharePoint (last visited on Jan. 9 2010).
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