Optimize SharePoint Storage
Ensure Governance, Performance and Scalability
As companies consider SharePoint as a mission-critical information management and collaboration platform, it is critical that proper planning takes place with regard to efficiently managing storage resources and content lifecycles. True deployment success will only be realized by companies who proactively address the challenges of SharePoint storage management.
Native capabilities within SharePoint Server 2010 help to address many of the challenges (e.g. the BCS for surfacing and managing legacy databases), but out-of-the-box SharePoint functionality does not deliver on every front, specifically when it comes to unstructured, legacy and inactive SharePoint data.
DocAve for Optimized SharePoint Storage
AvePoint—a SharePoint infrastructure management software provider—has responded to these challenges by developing the DocAve Storage Optimization Suite, comprised of three fully integrated tools to address every aspect of SharePoint storage management.
DocAve Extender for SharePoint is a free tool which automatically offloads BLOBs to disk-based storage the moment it is uploaded to SharePoint, with features including:
- Secure offloading of BLOB content to non-SQL, disk-based storage—based on customizable file-size triggers—preventing this data from ever entering SQL, thereby reducing database sizes by as much as 95% and optimizing database performance;
- Seamlessly transfer SharePoint BLOBs to any network addressable storage device, FTP system or cloud storage system;
- Fully transparent to end-users, who can still leverage all of SharePoint’s management and collaboration tools, including versioning, workflows and alerts, on the “extended” content;
- Full integration with SharePoint search, including FAST; and
- Total interactivity with client Office applications and other third-party tools.
DocAve Connector for SharePoint enables the migration-free SharePoint presentation, management and streaming of file-share content:
- Present and manage all content residing in any network file share, FTP site or cloud storage directly through SharePoint;
- “Connected” content is fully transparent to the end-user, and appears and acts in SharePoint as if it were residing in the SQL database;
- Fully integrate legacy file-share content with SharePoint search, making it fully discoverable; and
- Stream and manage audio and video files residing in shared drives via SharePoint without the need to import.
DocAve Archiver for SharePoint empowers administrators to craft an automated, intelligent content lifecycle management protocol over all SharePoint content, based on fully customizable business rules:
- Offload dormant Sites Collections, Site, Lists, Libraries, and Items to progressively lower tiered storage based on any metadata triggers (e.g. “last modified”);
- “Archived” content is fully transparent to the end-user, and appears and acts in SharePoint as if it were residing in the SQL database;
- Prune old item versions from SharePoint and offload to lower storage tiers;
- Optional end-user archiving, for “archiving on demand” in addition to business-rule archiving; and
- Full integration with other DocAve tools, so that “extended” and “connected” content can also be analyzed by DocAve Archiver, and thereby delivered to progressively lower storage tiers when it meets requirements.
To learn more about SharePoint storage management, and how AvePoint can help you optimize your storage and content lifecycle management strategies, please visit www.avepoint.com.