Well, the last couple weeks have been a whirlwind.

In the past few months, I've been working hard with Paul Learning (Microsoft Consulting Services), Andy Hopkins (Technical Development Manager, Microsoft) as well as a few guys on the MS SharePoint Product team.  Paul and I have been busy loading up a massive Fujitsu server farm while Andy burns through logistical hurdles all in an effort to develop a SharePoint Scalability whitepaper.  It looks like we're going to have this whitepaper done in time for SP Conference 08!  So I thought I would provide a little background.

It's been a rediculous ride.  We started with an incredible hardware rig from Fujitsu, complete with blade servers, rack servers, an Itanium SQL box and a full 10TB of storage space on a Fujitsu Eternus SAN.  My job was to use some of the KnowledgeLake secret sauce and a little creative multithreading to blast 50 million records into SharePoint.  Here's a hint as to the scalability of SharePoint... We were able to use the load tool to send the 50 million documents into SharePoint at a peak rate of 7+ MILLION documents PER DAY!

Anyway, word has leaked out that we were working on this whitepaper so I thought I might as well blog about it.  In the last month or so, we've had a lot of folks contacting Microsoft and KnowledgeLake about scalability architecture and possibly executing similar tests "on their hardware".  It's amazing how much buzz this is getting and we haven't even advertised it! 

So the whitepaper is coming soon!  There will be a big splash at Microsoft SharePoint Conference '08 and probably a couple webcasts after that.  We're here to sing the story.  SharePoint CAN SCALE, and we can prove it!

This is the real reason I wanted to start this blog.  I wanted a forum to talk about the incredible scalability story that SharePoint has to offer.  I'm a believer and I'm here to make you one too!