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  • SharePoint BLOB Remoting, Archiving and HSM

  • Keep Content BLOBs out of SQL and Realize Immediate ROI. 

    Everybody knows that SharePoint natively stores content (i.e. Office documents, TIFFs, PDFs, etc.) in SQL Server. Everybody also knows that SQL Server databases typically reside on some of the most expensive disk in an organization's storage infrastructure.

    These realities, along with planning and manageability challenges, prevent a majority of companies from storing large volumes of content in SharePoint, in turn preventing them from realizing the full value of their SharePoint investments. Learn More or Request Info 

    • They have to think twice before moving the content in all those file shares into SharePoint.
    • That the Notes-to-SharePoint migration will have to wait.
    • Can't even consider migrating all that content from legacy content management platforms into SharePoint.

    We understand that all your content stored on Tier-One storage is not sustainable. We also understand that you don't want to plan for and manage your content in smaller chunks or risk falling outside of operational windows on disaster recovery and indexing tasks.

    StoragePoint - Tier Diagram Small 

    We understand all the challenges one faces with content BLOBs stored in SQL databases and that's why we built the 1st version of StoragePoint over 3 years ago. This is not an legacy archive solution. StoragePoint is an active storage solution. The content never gets into SQL Server with StoragePoint in place.

    Content is immediately relocated to the configured storage end-point. And you can define as many end-points, to as many different storage platforms, as you like. So you can put your mission-critical content on high availability storage and push everything else to a less expensive on-premise or cloud storage tier. You decide based on your SLA and isolation requirements.

    Learn More or Request Info

    • 0-3 Month ROI leveraging storage “tiering” 
    • Built-in intelligent "active" archiving 
    • Manage 4+ Terabytes within a single content database 
    • Reporting Dashboard and Health Monitor 
    • Managed completely within SharePoint Central Admin. 
    • Cheaper and easier SharePoint scalability 
    • Leverages both EBS and RBS SharePoint API's 

     

    "With Storagepoint, we can now leverage our SharePoint investment on a much larger scale."

    Mark Wiley - Chesapeake Energy IT Manager

     

    Core Enterprise Features and Benefits  StoragePoint  Others 
    Active Archiving- Content BLOBs do not need to be removed from SQL since they are not placed there Yes No
    Archiving breaks SharePoint functionality and or 3rd party applications No Yes
    Move BLOBs to less expensive tiers of storage as the list item ages Yes No
    Move BLOBs to less expensive tiers of storage by Metadata Change Event (i.e. status changed to complete) Yes No
    Move BLOBs to less expensive tiers of storage as versions are retained (accumulated) Yes No
    retained (accumulated) Move BLOBs to different storage tiers via workflow or SharePoint Information Management Policies Yes No
    Filter and target BLOB storage locations by file size and/or type Yes No
    Securely delete (shred) deleted BLOBs Yes No
    Notify administrators of low free-space conditions and error
    conditions on storage locations (endpoints)    		 Yes No
    Dynamically take storage locations (endpoints) offline as they fill up or report an admin-defined number or errors Yes No
    Reporting Dashboard and Health Monitor Yes No
    Externalize, Migrate, and Recall content
    on-demand from a list item’s context menu    		 Yes No
    100% .NET (No Java) Yes No