AvePoint Announces SharePoint 2007 Strategy Seminars in Ten U.S. Cities

Complimentary seminars to focus on effective infrastructure management strategies for real-world SharePoint deployments and feature best-selling author Errin O’Connor.

JERSEY CITY, NJ, April 16, 2008 — Inspired by the popularity of its inaugural seminar series held last fall, AvePoint today released the schedule for its second SharePoint 2007 Seminar Series. The complimentary seminars will be held throughout May 2008 in Ten U.S. Cities and highlight the latest innovations in SharePoint infrastructure management and data protection. Celebrated author and SharePoint authority Errin O'Connor will serve as the series' featured speaker, offering proven guidance and keen insight for SharePoint Administrators seeking to maximize SharePoint performance, reliability, and availability. Seminar attendees will receive complimentary resource kits containing useful SharePoint tools, and be entered to win valuable prizes.

"AvePoint's seminars are a great resource for all those wanting to explore the very latest in SharePoint infrastructure management" said featured speaker, Errin O'Connor. "Last year's seminars were a great success, with Administrators from all over the country meeting to discuss SharePoint from a real-world, business-world perspective. I am confident this year's series will prove just as successful. These are always dynamic learning and networking events."

One Platform, Many Insights

Each seminar will cover a broad range of issues, all focused on providing SharePoint Administrators the information needed to manage SharePoint infrastructure effectively. Topics covered during each seminar will include:
  • Capacity and performance planning for building highly scalable, reliable and well managed SharePoint environments
  • Maximizing application availability via highly redundant SharePoint architectures
  • Critical considerations for ensuring timely access to information and meeting Service Level Agreements (SLA's)
  • Governance and compliance implications for SharePoint
  • Planning for the unexpected - Protecting SharePoint with a viable backup and system recovery strategy
  • Evaluating SharePoint 's native tools and advanced techniques
  • Best practices for "real-world" SharePoint 2007 deployments and common disaster recovery scenarios
  • Introduction to DocAve 5.0 Backup and Recovery - a new business process-driven solution for intelligent data protection of enterprise-wide SharePoint environments
Each seminar will begin with a complimentary breakfast and conclude with an interactive Question & Answer period, moderated by Mr. O'Connor.

When, Where and How

Seminars are being held in cities coast-to-coast, to provide Administrators and enthusiasts across the country convenient access to the "latest and greatest" innovations in SharePoint management. Scheduled events include:
 
5/1/2008 (Thursday) 8:30am-12pm Chicago, IL
5/2/2008 (Friday) 8:30am-12pm New York, NY
5/8/2008 (Thursday) 8:30am-12pm Waltham, MA
5/9/2008 (Friday) 8:30am-12pm Washington, DC
5/13/2008 (Tuesday) 8:30am-12pm Redmond, WA
5/15/2008 (Thursday) 8:30am-12pm Alpharetta, GA
5/16/2008 (Friday) 8:30am-12pm Austin, TX
5/21/2008 (Wednesday) 8:30am-12pm Mountain View, CA
5/22/2008 (Thursday) 8:30am-12pm Los Angeles, CA

To learn more or to register for an upcoming SharePoint 2007 seminar, please visit AvePoint's website at http://www.avepoint.com/seminars.
 
About AvePoint
 
Since 2001, AvePoint has been a global leader in enterprise-strength infrastructure management software solutions for all Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. Propelled by one of the world's largest SharePoint-exclusive development teams outside of Microsoft, AvePoint's award-winning DocAve software delivers comprehensive and flexible infrastructure support for backup and recovery, replication, migration, administration, archiving and compliance solutions for Microsoft SharePoint.
 
AvePoint's globally recognized pioneering technology pilots the products of OEM partners such as NetApp and IBM. Headquartered in Jersey City, NJ, AvePoint serves over two thousand enterprise customers, including many Fortune-500 companies, across 6 continents, via offices in Jersey City, San Jose, Chicago, and Washington D.C., USA; London, UK; Melbourne, Australia; and Changchun, Dalian, China. AvePoint is a Managed Gold Certified Microsoft Partner and GSA Certified Provider.
 
About Errin O'Connor
 
Errin O'Connor is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer for EPC Group and author of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Inside Out, by Microsoft Press. At EPC Group, Errin manages corporate strategy and architects the proven methodologies around collaboration, enterprise content management, and custom application development that have set EPC Group apart from its competitors. Errin has completed more than 80 successful individual SharePoint implementations and has worked with many of the largest organizations in the United States.
 

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