STEALTH Content Store for SharePoint using Caringo CAStor™
STEALTH Content Store for Microsoft SharePoint Office 2007 Server can help you achieve this all. It is the industry’s first truly seamless integrated SharePoint Content Store solution for Caringo’s CAStor™. STEALTH Content Store extends the value and performance of SharePoint whi
le optimizing storage and server resources using Caringo’s CAStor™. 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 Caringo’s CAStor™ is easy to implement and works fully transparent to the end-user. SharePoint Office Data stored on Caringo’s CAStor™ 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.
Caringo’s CAStor™ 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 Caringo’s CAStor™.
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 Caringo’s CAStor™ to contain BLOB data.
Currently the STEALTH Software Caringo’s CAStor™ Interface supports the usage of CAStor as a Microsoft SharePoint Office 2007 Server Blob Store and an archive for storing and retaining regulated and immutable documents over the long-term.
Using our STEALTH Software results in impressive benefits leading to direct Return On Investment:
Caringo’s CAStor™ Architecture Features & Benefits
• Software-only CAS. No hardware lock-in; software never loaded on disk leaving all storage available for data.
• Hardware Agnostic (Any x86 Architecture) Standard, commodity server hardware of choice; take full advantage of the price performance curve of commodity servers
• Zero File System, No file system overhead, minimal management/administration; no limits on quantity of files or file sizes.
• Symmetric Architecture, All nodes offer all functions. No bottlenecks. No access only nodes. Near-continuous operation and flexible re-configuration on-the-fly.
• Self-Aware Cluster, Self-managing, self-configuring and self-healing maximizes up time and minimizes administration
• Scale Performance, Cluster performance improves with addition of new server nodes or nodes with greater processing power
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.[/column]
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 hardware with CAStor, 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.[/column]
If you are unaware of the Cloud Storage Service of Caringo CAStor, here is some information on Caringo’s CAStor.
Caringo has a vision on how cloud storage can impact our way of working. A vision that Synergy4 underlines. Have a look at the presentation that Paul Carpentier – CTO Caringo – did at the European Microsoft Sharepoint Conference 2007 in Berlin. A presentation in 2007, now reality.
