Understand FAST for SharePoint 2010

FAST for SharePoint is a separate server product available from Microsoft that can be configured to replace the standard search functionality shipped with SharePoint 2010. FAST for SharePoint offers a wide range of features that extend search capabilities beyond those that come with SharePoint 2010 itself. Among the features that FAST for SharePoint offers are:

Extreme Scale-Out Perhaps the most obvious advantage of FAST is its ability to index more than 100 million items and as much as 1 billion items with the appropriate server architecture.

Thumbnails and Previews FAST will generate thumbnail views of all Word and PowerPoint documents that can be seen directly from the search results page and without opening ...

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