When deploying SharePoint as a business-critical collaboration tool and digital-asset repository, implementing intelligent strategies for data protection, platform management, and accessibility is absolutely essential. Though SharePoint natively provides some data protection and administration capabilities, they prove inadequate for most competitive organizations. In this session we will discuss the key attributes of all successful SharePoint data protection, archiving, and administration initiatives, and review how to develop strategies for your specific organizational needs. After analyzing SharePoint's native backup and recovery, administration, archiving, and data-access capabilities, we will identify best practices, available free tools, and other best-of-breed solutions for ensuring a fully protected, efficiently managed, and highly performant and accessible SharePoint platform.