Centralized vs. Regional SharePoint Deployment
In the Fancy Flowers story, the content was added in one part of the world and viewed in another. That isn’t generally the case. Most collaboration is done between people in the same region, and some of that content is of interest to the broader global community within the organization, particularly through search. This section will look at the advantages and disadvantages of distributing your SharePoint architecture across the globe. As you saw in the case of Fancy Flowers, placing the content close to the people who need to see it provides a higher QoS. This is a good general principle.
The services architecture in SharePoint 2010 means you can centralize some services while keeping others regionalized. ...
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