The launch of its new fully managed Windows SharePoint Services solution in a virtualized environment has been announced today by a leading provider of managed services and dedicated hosting solutions, VIA Networks. The new configuration is built around best practices for developing and deploying Microsoft SharePoint solutions on Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V. Providing a flexible option for customer applications, this configuration helps organizations to deploy a full Windows SharePoint Services solution in a virtualization environment.

Managing director for VIA Networks, Darin Elkins, noted: "We're very excited about our new SharePoint offering on Hyper-V." He continued: "By using best practices for Microsoft SharePoint and virtualization, we're able to offer customers a more flexible and powerful solution for collaboration."

The new VIA Networks virtual WSS configuration was created for organizations who want to maximize their hosted environments due to high growth or fluctuations in capacity. Employing Microsoft's best practices for high performance, scalability and capacity planning, the new solution features architecture consistent with more robust Microsoft SharePoint environments on traditional server deployments.

oupled with VIA Networks' SharePoint platform management, the WSS virtualized solution enables customers to quickly deploy a robust collaboration environment. All of VIA Networks SharePoint configurations are architected to deliver a high-availability platform for custom applications.