Metalogix StoragePoint

You need to make sure that your organization’s Information assets are safe, secure, and highly available. You’re asked to accomplish this and more even though your budget is decreasing. You’d like to use SharePoint® more, but it will cost you too much to store all that content in SQL Server and you know that the related operational challenges will just add additional expense and risk.

With StoragePoint you can keep SharePoint content out of SQL and…

• Dramatically simplify disaster recovery of your SharePoint Farms. You’ll have more options and will be able to recover from a disaster more quickly.
• Secure it better with 128 or 256 bit AES encryption or by remoting it to a WORM-compliant storage platform.
• Move it to less expensive tiers of storage. Try our ROI Calculator and find out how much you can save.

You’ve been tasked with consolidating your organization’s content into a single repository… get rid of file shares, public folders, and other content management platforms. A decision has been made to use SharePoint. You now have to architect a highly-ruggedized implementation that will keep all IT and business stakeholders happy without breaking the bank

With StoragePoint you can keep SharePoint content out of SQL and…

• More economically and easily build out your farm by removing the BLOB I/O overhead from SQL Server.
• Develop a DR strategy that meets your operational SLAs without overusing tier 1 storage or investing in expensive backup & recovery tools/technology.
• Develop a tiered storage architecture that partitions content based on SLAs and isolation level…active, mission critical content on high availability storage down thru archived or non-mission critical content on a less expensive storage tier. Try our ROI Calculator and see the cost savings.

You’re tasked with keeping it all running. Others within IT, and more importantly end users, rely on you to make sure SharePoint is well-maintained, content is available when they need it, and can be quickly and easily recovered if someone accidently deletes it. You have an increasing list of maintenance tasks, yet your operational windows are getting smaller.

With StoragePoint you can keep SharePoint content out of SQL and…

• Dramatically reduce the time it takes to run SharePoint and database related Maintenance tasks…crawls run faster and backups take less time.
• Item level backups and restores take less time…you’re only dealing with list item data. Remoted BLOBs are static and their backup and recovery can be managed by tools built into the filer or purchased from 3rd parties. Read our backup/recovery whitepaper or watch how to leverage Windows DFS.
• Make storage for new content sources more readily available by leveraging Cloud platforms and reducing the need for new databases to be created.

 Your organization has been using SharePoint as an Intranet portal and collaboration platform for a while, but now they want to use it for content management. You have to figure out how to manage the exponential growth in number and size of databases so you can maintain a usable and supportable environment without becoming a bottleneck.

 With StoragePoint you can keep SharePoint content out of SQL and…

• Reduce the amount data that is stored in a database by 95%+. This will result in the creation of fewer and smaller content databases. Fewer databases translates into fewer instances which translates in fewer cluster nodes.
• Dramatically simplify disaster recovery tasks…BLOB-free databases can be more easily and quickly backed up or restored. You can also realistically leverage log shipping, as the transaction logs contain no BLOBs.
• Simplify and reduce the frequency of database-related maintenance tasks. BLOB-free databases and tables do not become easily or quickly fragmented.

With StoragePoint you can keep SharePoint content out of SQL and…

• Store it on WORM-compliant storage platforms so you can adhere to regulations like SEC 17a-4 or HIPAA.
• Move it to archive platforms like EMC Centera or Hitachi HCAP where it’s retention and destruction can be controlled.

You have to look at all the content sources from all the departments across your organization and come up with some kind of taxonomy that maximizes reuse of common metadata and improves find-ability. With SharePoint this task is further complicated by the need to account for planning recommendations that limit the amount of content you should store in a single site collection. How do you keep the taxonomy from becoming wonky?

With StoragePoint you can keep SharePoint content out of SQL and…

• Simplify planning tasks. Your taxonomy, which should be based on logical constructs like your organization’s hierarchy and types of content, does not have to be affected by physical limitations of the underlying solution architecture.
• Manage more of your organization’s content in SharePoint, promoting greater control and audit-ability, improving find-ability and accelerating business process improvement.

You want to put as much of your content in SharePoint® as possible, including large documents and media files. You’re tired of navigating file shares looking for that one Word document or having to go to multiple applications because the content you rely on to do your job is stored in different content repositories. IT is pushing back on putting all your content in SharePoint® because of concerns around storing large documents and large volumes of content.

With StoragePoint you can keep SharePoint content out of SQL and…

• Improve the performance of large document storage and retrieval.
• Speed up the indexing of content, making it available for end user searching and retrieval more quickly.
• Reduce the amount of time needed to import documents from other content sources.