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Is SharePoint Becoming a SorePoint?

As an IT business close to its customers, we often hear the issues people have with SharePoint.

Is your business facing these issues?

“SharePoint is growing way too fast”

“Backing up SharePoint is not an easy process, in fact its difficult. I am dreading when the time comes I need to restore it”

“Version control is becoming too deep and too hard to keep a grip on”

“The growth in database size is starting to throw up performance issues”

“SharePoint is really starting to eat in to my storage, more cost!”

“SharePoint is fast becoming business critical for us and that’s a concern”

They say “the customer is always right” and from the SharePoint issues our customers have faced they certainly are. SharePoint is known to be difficult to backup, restore and scale plus it’s fast becoming a business critical tool.
The good news is that LETN has resolved those customer issues by providing a seamless solution and integration that ensure the database is archived, reducing backup times and improving restore times dramatically. Not only that, but the user will enjoy a much better experience using SharePoint with higher performance levels.

“So how do they do that?”

LETN combine a blend of leading edge technologies which work in synergy with each other turning a sore point in to a business application that can be scaled and managed with ease.

For instance Symantec Enterprise Vault for SharePoint provides you with the ability to archive old data on to secondary storage, which leaves your primary storage to deal with the “now” side of things.

• Enables SharePoint to scale for optimized performance
• Offers granular archiving across SharePoint document libraries, folders, and items
• Lets you retain and maintain efficient document versioning control
• Enables corporate discovery and seamless end-user searching (Users will not be affected by the archiving).
• Facilitates rapid disaster recovery and optimal backup processing
• Centralizes archived SharePoint information with other Enterprise Vault archived content (such as Microsoft Exchange)

The reccomended storage element of this solution should be a FAS Filer / SAN from NetApp. With NetApp’s unrivalled snapshot technology you can take up to 255 snapshots providing instant backup and restore. And, with Snapshot for SharePoint you improve manageability, increase availability and reduce storage costs.

• Increase availability – Protect data in collaboration portals and document repositories across your enterprise without performance degradation during backups or recovery
• Improve manageability – Manage your Microsoft SharePoint Server farms more efficiently with our NetApp’s automated discovery of SharePoint Server data layout capabilities and easy-to-use data backup and recovery processes.
• Respond Quickly to Growth – Dynamically add and reallocate capacity with NetApp’s modular upgrade path for both physical capacity and storage controllers.
• Reduce Cost – Improve utilisation of you storage assets, increase productivity and significantly reduce storage costs by consolidating your SharePoint Server data on NetApp storage

To understand more the long term management of business critical SharePoint content call LETN on 01189 070 070.