Soarsoft
Africa, a specialist of archive, migration, messaging and collaboration
solutions, has announced the release of Metalogix StoragePoint 4.2, the
industry’s first and only fully integrated SharePoint storage, backup and
recovery solution. Established as SharePoint’s top-selling storage optimisation
product, the new release expands StoragePoint’s range of capabilities to
include automated backup, either on-premises or in the cloud, and the ability
to granularly restore lost content all the way down to the document level.
Says
Chris Hathaway, Director of Soarsoft Africa: “It is essential for organisations
of all sizes to ensure that a SharePoint backup and recovery strategy is in
place. This becomes even more critical as the amount of data and importance of
the content increases with the wider adoption of SharePoint as a Document
Management and Collaboration solution for the enterprise. StoragePoint is often already required or in
place to archive and off-load content from the database and by automating your
backup and recovery in the same platform, there are significant gains in
efficiency and over all simplification of the platform. Furthermore, it caters
to those organisations that leverage Cloud Storage and Backup Infrastructure,
ensuring the solution is aligned with these cloud strategies.”
Organisations
must now manage an average of 1 Terabyte (TB) of content within SharePoint
environments and that content is nearly doubling every year. Due to this
dramatic growth and SharePoint’s ascension as a mission-critical content
management and collaboration platform, there is increasing pressure on
organisations to develop a cohesive strategy for storing terabytes of content
and achieving fast backup and recovery. Organisations have realised that
existing storage and backup methods can no longer meet the stricter Recovery
Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) requirements for data
loss and recovery. For example, without StoragePoint, it can take up to eight
hours to backup 1TB of content. With StoragePoint, it can be accomplished in
minutes.
StoragePoint
4.2 provides a new, comprehensive approach for Binary Large Object (BLOB)
storage, SharePoint backup and recovery, all of which can be accessed directly
within a single user interface in the SharePoint central administration.
StoragePoint uses Remote BLOB Storage (RBS) technology to offload the
unstructured content such as Office documents and rich media files – known as
BLOBs – from SQL Server to more appropriate and cheaper storage tiers.
Externalising BLOBs shrinks content databases by up to 95% and allows databases
to be automatically and continuously backed up in mere minutes. The product
also provides granular, item-level restore capabilities for lost, deleted or
corrupted content. StoragePoint enables these breakthrough capabilities for any
version of SharePoint and is the first to do so for SharePoint 2013.
“Our
customers have routinely inquired about improving their lengthy backup times
and reducing the time it takes to respond to a user losing a document or
folder,” says Steven Murphy, CEO, Metalogix. “We developed StoragePoint 4.2 to
provide customers a simple way to address their SharePoint storage, backup and
recovery needs. Within one familiar user interface, SharePoint administrators
and IT professionals can quickly and easily backup and restore content in a
matter of minutes as opposed to hours or days. StoragePoint 4.2 is a
game-changer for SharePoint backup and recovery that will streamline these
processes and improve productivity throughout an organisation.”
By
using StoragePoint 4.2, organisations will no longer have to rely on
time-consuming backup processes with SQL Backup or a central backup and
recovery team to handle lost item requests. Additionally, the product
introduces support for backup to the cloud, which will help further drive down
storage costs. There are also new features that address event-based retention
support for EMC Centera and synchronisation between SharePoint information
management and external storage retention policies.
As
part of the product release, Metalogix has introduced StoragePoint Express,
which gives organisations the chance to use the product at no cost for up to
200 Gigabytes (GB) of content. StoragePoint Express features the RBS
capabilities that have established StoragePoint as the market-leader for
SharePoint storage optimisation and the new automated backup features.
“StoragePoint
has a rich history of setting trends within the SharePoint industry and the
introduction of StoragePoint Express continues this tradition,” says Jignesh
Shah, Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer, Metalogix. “By offering up to
200GB for free, we are providing a unique opportunity to use our product
risk-free and experience its breakthrough ability to improve SharePoint
performance, slash SharePoint storage costs and reduce the time it takes to
backup and recover SharePoint content.”
About Metalogix
Metalogix
provides content infrastructure software to improve the use and performance of
enterprise content. For over a decade, Metalogix has transformed the way
commercial and government organisations manage terabytes of content to improve
knowledge sharing and collaboration. Today, more than 7,500 customers rely on
the company’s products to upgrade, migrate, organise, store, archive and
replicate content on Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange and Cloud platforms.
Metalogix has moved more than 50,000 terabytes of content – more than every
other ISV in the marketplace combined.
Metalogix
is recognised as the fastest growing software company in the Washington
D.C.-area by the Washington Business Journal and was named to the 2012 Inc. 500
list of fastest growing companies. Metalogix is a Microsoft Gold Partner, a
managed partner in Microsoft’s High Potential ISV Group and GSA provider.
Metalogix is a privately held company backed by Insight Venture Partners and
Bessemer Venture Partners. Follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.
About Soarsoft Africa
Soarsoft
Africa focuses on Archive, Migration, Messaging and Collaboration solutions,
with a successful track record that spans over a decade. Leveraging the experience gained from some of
the largest and most complex information management implementations around the
world, we are able to deliver cost effective and successful projects and
solutions. Soarsoft only supports and implements
what it considers to be trusted and proven solutions to meet our customers’
specific information management requirements. Soarsoft continues to evaluate
its offerings to ensure they maintain market and technological leadership
positions, so that clients are offered the very best and up-to-date advice when
assessing their requirements. Soarsoft
Africa operates throughout Africa and parts of the Middle East and has offices
in both Johannesburg and Cape Town South Africa.
Editorial Contacts:
Soarsoft
Africa
Chris
Hathaway
Tel:
021 200 2393
Email:
chrish@soarsoft.co.za
Evolution
PR
Lesley
Rencontre
Tel:
011 462 0679
Email: Lesley@evolutionpr.co.za
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