Better SharePoint Storage With Metalogix StoragePoint
Metalogix StoragePoint, which is winner of Microsoft’s® SharePoint® 2010 Innovation award and Microsoft’s® Gold Certified Partner, provides businesses to maintain unstructured content, known as Binary Large Objects (BLOBs), outside Microsoft SharePoint Storage Server content databases and stores them on EMC Centera.
Since SharePoint keeps files as BLOB's (Binary Large OBjec) inside the MSSQL server database, the functionality of SharePoint requires a considerable resource as soon as you reach approximately 500,000 objects. StoragePoint gets rid of any scalability problems associated with BLOB's and actually boosts SQL Server functionality. The inclusion of StoragePoint to SharePoint simply gives SharePoint 2010 better database scalability and performance.
Storing BLOBs inside a SharePoint database causes a lot of issues while your information size evolves. This begins with tremendously much bigger databases. The extra SQL I/O overhead generated by the BLOBs makes you to set aside an excessive number of hardware towards the database. While SQL Server is restricted to single-storage profile, this may need to have expensive backup for all those information in order to manage system overall functionality.
StoragePoint puts the BLOBs outside the database, which can free SQL Server in order to make use of the rest of its resources to process queries. In other words you will have a more responsive, smaller, and more scalable SharePoint content database with better results. In addition, this reduces long backup times as well as enables you to easily recover content databases if needed.
By keeping BLOBs out of the database, StoragePoint greatly lower the size of SharePoint databases by 90%.
To summarize, Storagepoint Minimizes your database by at least 90% - 95% and makes SharePoint quicker and less expensive.
