Microsoft SharePoint Application Hosting

Working Together is Made Easier

SharePoint 2010 offers you the ability to set up websites to share information, manage documents from start to finish, and publish reports to assist organizations with decision making.

SharePoint 2010 has many exciting new features to offer customers, and many previously enterprise level features are available on the Foundation ($0.00 per user) edition.

Hosting.com Solutions

SharePoint 2010 will be available as a Virtual Appliance, a Virtual Machine or on a Dedicated Server:

Microsoft has vastly improved the search functionality, and has been able to integrate much of Office into their SharePoint 2010 offering. For example, calendars sync with Outlook, Word, Excel and Access can all be opened within SharePoint 2010, and even Microsoft Visual Studio.

SharePoint 2010 also has features from social networking sites such as being able to create profiles for each user identifying areas of expertise, giving status updates and integrating audio and video.

SharePoint 2010 Capabilities

• Sites: Single infrastructure for all business web sites
• Composites: Tools and components for creating do-it-yourself business solutions
• Insights: All users have access to the information contained in the databases, reports and business applications
• Communities: Collaboration tools
• Content: Content management made easy
• Search: Improved relevance, refinement and social cues

Virtual Appliance Availability

Hosting.com is one of the first hosting companies to offer SharePoint 2010 as a Virtual Appliance. The SharePoint 2010 Virtual Appliance is a pre-packaged application and virtual machine deployable in a VMware cloud, the first ever available from Microsoft, that will cut deployment time and expense.  As a Virtual Appliance, the application and OS are pre-installed, pre-configured and pre-tested as a ready-to-go SharePoint 2010 instance.  There are no shared resources with other customers as would be the case in a managed multi-tenant SharePoint 2010 environment.

A Virtual Appliance is not just a virtual machine, but rather it is a software image with software stacked inside of a virtual machine. Similar to a physical machine, a virtual machine is just the platform for running an operating system. It will launch from the Customer Portal as an OVF deployment from Hosting.com’s virtual appliance repository.

Virtual Appliances represent the future groundwork for software deployment methods. By utilizing a Virtual Appliance, we are able to standardize a product providing our customers increased reliability, reduced installed time and decreasing the need for support. Customers will essentially skip hardware and operating system preparation – within a few clicks and in less than ten minutes, the Virtual Appliance is deployed.

SharePoint 2010 Virtual Appliance Demo