Manage Data Growth in Microsoft Share Point Environments

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Hitachi Data Discovery for Microsoft® SharePoint®

Reduce Costs, Improve Performance and Productivity

Provides file and content tiering, archiving and recovery of content within Microsoft SharePoint environments in combination with Hitachi NAS Platform and Hitachi Content Platform
Lets you relocate data from SharePoint to Hitachi NAS Platform or Hitachi Content Platform using the familiar SharePoint interface
Allows SharePoint management by administrators to optimize and grow their infrastructure more efficiently and reduce the total cost of storage ownership.

Overview

Reduce Storage, Improve Performance and Scalability

Microsoft SharePoint works with Microsoft Windows Explorer, Microsoft Office applications and web browsers to help create, manage and share content. Hitachi Data Discovery for Microsoft SharePoint enables data to tier from SharePoint to Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) and Hitachi NAS Platform (HNAS), powered by BlueArc®. Additional hardware or middleware is not required. Hitachi Data Discovery for Microsoft SharePoint is available for a single server farm (basic version) as well as a multiple server farm (farm version). Both versions have many performance, productivity and cost savings benefits.

Reduces current and required storage for SQL Server databases for SharePoint by offloading data from SharePoint to other storage tiers
Consolidates content from multiple SharePoint environments
Optimizes performance, scalability and availability of SharePoint environments
Efficiently manages file and content preservation and retention
Tiers data to less expensive storage, reclaims high-performing disk drives

Efficiently Manage SharePoint Growth

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Features and Benefits

Features

Basic and Farm Licenses

Supports single or multi-server Microsoft SharePoint farms
Supports SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010 and WSS 3.0
Supports seamless and simplified integration with SharePoint, Hitachi Content Platform and Hitachi NAS Platform
Allows you to use file pointers (stubs) to free up resources by relocating SharePoint content to HCP for improved performance, greater scalability and faster backups
Supports file versioning
Provides cost-effective, scalable and tamperproof archive and restore capabilities for multiple data types.
Enables authentication for all functions governed by Microsoft Active Directory
Allows for easy installation and use of both Basic and Farm options
Enables ingestion of individual files as well as bulk document library, site and site collection ingestion
Enforces retention policies on critical business documents created in SharePoint 2010
Applies target storage at the document library, web application and site collection levels—multiple target storage options can be supplied to meet different data needs
Supports Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition (32-bit x86 and 64-bit x64).
Supports multitenancy and name spaces on HCP

Benefits

Reduces current and required storage for Microsoft SQL Server databases for SharePoint by offloading data from SharePoint to other tiers of storage
Reduces backup requirements for SharePoint SQL storage when offloaded to Hitachi Content Platform
Provides cost-effective, scalable, searchable and tamperproof archive and restore capabilities for multiple data types
Consolidates content from multiple SharePoint environments
Efficiently manages file and content preservation and retention
Optimizes performance, scalability and availability of SharePoint environments
Meets regulatory and litigation demands through compliance and corporate records management
Conducts structured and advance searches across SharePoint and non-SharePoint data stored in Hitachi Content Platform
Allows restoration of single files to SharePoint
Supports setting retention, shredding and litigation holds to search results

Resources

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