STEALTH Content Store for SharePoint using ParaScale
STEALTH Content Store for Microsoft SharePoint Office 2007 Server is the industry’s first truly seamless integrated SharePoint Content Store solution for ParaScale Cloud Storage software. STEALTH Software extends the value and performance of Microsoft SharePoint while optimizing storage and server resources using ParaScale Cloud Storage software. 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 on ParaScale Cloud Storage software is easy to implement and works fully transparent to the end-user. SharePoint Office data stored on ParaScale Cloud Storage 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.
ParaScale Cloud Storage software 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 ParaScale Cloud Storage.
Typically, as much as 80 percent of data for an enterprise-scale deployment of Microsoft SharePoint Office 2007 Server consists of file-based content that are stored as BLOB data. These BLOB objects comprise data associated with Microsoft 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 ParaScale Cloud Storage software to contain BLOB data.
Key Advantages of STEALTH Content Store for Microsoft SharePoint and ParaScale Cloud Storage software.
- 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 ParaScale Cloud Storage software
- Dramatically reducing the recovery time of your SharePoint Office 2007 Server environment by separating content from the metadata allowing for easy backup and restore.
ParaScale Cloud Storage software Features & Benefits
- Start small and scale on demand – The ParaScale Cloud storage software allows users to start small, test out the solution with minimal risk and scale seamlessly to petabyte scale with no downtime.
- Mix and Match hardware – The software runs on user selected commodity hardware, allowing administrators to build out a solution with hardware from different vendors and prevent vendor lock-in.
- Native Thin Provisioning – Thin Provisioning allows administrators to reduce initial investment and improve storage economics by over provisioning storage and performing just-in-time purchasing of all hardware.
- Highly Available Architecture with Policy Based Replication – An inherent Highly Available architecture eliminates all single points of failure by protecting data using replication and metadata using an Active/Passive cluster, allowing STEALTH Content Store to seamlessly access data even if parts of the cloud are down.
- Online Resizing of Cloud – Management operation like adding or removing physical attributes like nodes or disks from the Cloud can be done without any system downtime and are transparent to STEALTH Content Store.
- Automatic Capacity Balancing – The software intelligently migrates and rebalances data across the cloud as a background task, eliminating the need for administrators to constantly oversee current utilization rates and perform manual data migration tasks.
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 SharePoint Server plus annual maintenance fee is all that it takes.
