SharePoint adoption continues to grow because it simplifies the creation of intranet or website content, supplies document management storage and provides additional features that help organizations manage their data. However, the ease of rolling out new sites can easily spiral out of control when SharePoint resides within a virtualized environment, and the need to manage site growth is even more important because explosive growth can affect other virtual systems that share the host server’s resources.
As IT leaders work to meet the needs of the business while balancing associated infrastructure costs, many organizations set up a test environment of a SharePoint system with just a few pilot groups or departments. This helps them gain experience with setup and management tasks, observe how users interact with the system and determine functionality with other enterprise systems. With limited IT resources and a virtualized test pilot environment, this IT team was able to balance the needs of the business with the test group’s usage of the system.
