Features

Enhance SharePoint Performance and Scalability

StoragePoint provides enhanced performance and scalability for both SharePoint 2007 and 2010 environments. Unstructured data, often referred to as binary large objects or BLOBs, are normally stored within SharePoint content databases (SQL Server). By offloading up to 95% of SharePoint BLOBs and removing the burden of processing them from SQL Server, higher levels of performance and scalability are achieved without significant investments in SQL Server infrastructure.

Reduce Storage Costs

StoragePoint’s active archiving capability allows administrators to create archive policies that dictate where content will be stored. These policies can be created based on content age, metadata change rules, or retained version rules. By leveraging archiving policies, significant savings in storage costs can be realized by managing the complete lifecycle of content and moving inactive data to less expensive storage tiers.

Manage Compliance and the Content Lifecycle

Often organizations leverage SharePoint to support enterprise content management (ECM) scenarios that are governed by internal or external regulatory compliance rules. These rules dictate that content declared as a record must be in an unalterable state to prevent any tampering and guarantee authenticity for future discovery. Some rules also require encryption. StoragePoint allows customers to store compliance-related content on CAS (content addressable storage) or WORM (write-once, read-many) storage devices. The content can be encrypted using AES 128-bit or 256-bit encryption. This capability helps satisfy regulatory compliance requirements while managing content in SharePoint throughout its lifecycle.

Enhance Disaster Recovery Options

Traditional means of establishing high-availability failover environments, such SQL Log Shipping and Mirroring, are very inefficient. Because the majority of SharePoint content consists of unstructured data (BLOBs), externalizing that data provides new and more efficient opportunities to replicate data. StoragePoint taps these new replication capabilities, including distributed file system replication and storage-based replication, to establish failover environments with minimal loss of data.

Consolidate Content

SharePoint drives many organizations to consolidate content from a variety of sources, including file shares. StoragePoint File Share Librarian allows organizations to quickly catalogue file shares into SharePoint without actually moving the files. Once cataloged, file share data can be accessed directly through SharePoint to take advantage of SharePoint’s features, such as permissions, workflows, alerts, search, and metadata. Librarian also provides flexibility to map specific file share folders to multiple endpoints in SharePoint to ensure your content is organized to best meet your needs.