STEALTH Content Store for SharePoint using Windows Azure
STEALTH Content Store for Microsoft SharePoint Office 2007 Server is the industry’s first truly seamless integrated SharePoint Content Store solution for Windows Azure. STEALTH Content Store extends the value and performance of SharePoint while optimizing storage and server resources using Windows Azure. Exploding data volumes make companies quickly run out of Microsoft SQL server resources which means that additional Microsoft SQL servers must be deployed resulting in information silos and overall a higher management effort. When this is the situation at your company, STEALTH Content Store for Microsoft SharePoint Office 2007 Server can save your company money in terms of license fees, management effort and additional hardware.
STEALTH Content Store on Windows Azure is easy to implement and works fully transparent to the end-user. SharePoint Office Data stored on Windows Azure can always be accessed by end-users. Using a full content index it can be searched, viewed and edited via native SharePoint Office interface support. This means that no additional end-user skills are required.
Windows Azure replaces the traditional Microsoft SQL server based Blob store of Microsoft SharePoint Office 2007 server and Windows SharePoint Service 3.0. All content such as business documents and records are securely and safely stored in Windows Azure.
Typically, as much as 80 percent of data for an enterprise-scale deployment of Windows SharePoint Office 2007 Server consists of file-based content that are stored as BLOB data. These BLOB objects comprise data associated with SharePoint files. However, maintaining large quantities of BLOB data in a Microsoft SQL Server database is a suboptimal use of SQL Server resources. You can achieve more value at lower cost with equivalent efficiency by using an external data store like Windows Azure to contain BLOB data.
Key Advantages of STEALTH Content Store for Microsoft SharePoint and Windows Azure.
- Easy integration and deployment resulting in a quick ROI
- Significant reduction of costs related to unbridle growth of Microsoft SQL server installations
- Significant increase of Microsoft SharePoint Office 2007 Server performance
- Transparent to end-users resulting in no impact on your companies business
- Efficient and secure storage of archived data with Windows Azure Storage
- Dramatically reducing the recovery time of your SharePoint Office 2007 Server environment by separating content from the metadata allowing for easy backup and restore.
Business Benefits
Business Benefits of STEALTH Content Store for SharePoint Office 2007 Server and Windows Azure:
- Improve Database Performance. Reduce storage capacity in the SQL Server by storing unstructured content externally improves database performance and reliability.
- Faster Backup and Recovery. Reduce SQL Server database footprint to improve backup/recovery times and ensure content protection.
- Manage Regulatory Requirements. Address corporate governance and regulatory requirements from the application through storage and archiving.
- Reduce Storage and Storage Handling Costs. Reduce storage with Windows Azure for content storage, resulting in a direct ROI.
Operational Benefits
- Performance of the Microsoft SharePoint server improves significantly;
- Reliability of the Microsoft SharePoint server improves significantly;
- Restore times of backup / recovery are much faster;
- Scalability of Microsoft SharePoint server improves significantly;
- Regulatory requirements of the application are managed through storage and archiving;
- Easy Installation and Implementation;
- STEALTH Software is non-intrusive meaning that users will not notice a difference;
- STEALTH Software accepts all upgrades as it is not part of the Microsoft SharePoint application
Financial Benefits
- Less investment in fileserver hardware;
- Upfront storage investments are smaller as it is easier to grow your storage capacity in smaller steps;
- By utilizing standard server or reuse of hardware with ParaScale, storage costs are reduced;
- No need to invest in backup solutions as separate backup is not needed anymore;
- Less operational management costs;
- No need for upgrade licenses. One lifetime license per mailbox plus annual maintenance fee is all that it takes.
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