UK Chalcroft Quadruples Content Storage Space to 25TB With Metalogix StoragePoint

Metalogix Software Corporation, a provider
of content infrastructure software to improve the use and performance of enterprise
content on SharePoint, Exchange and cloud platforms, announced that Chalcroft Ltd,
a construction company based in the UK, has implemented
Metalogix StoragePoint to manage over 25TB of enterprise SharePoint content.

After installing
StoragePoint, Chalcroft was able to quadruple their storage space and witnessed
a difference in the performance of its SQL server and SharePoint
environment.

"StoragePoint is extremely easy-to-use. It’s just point, click and go," said Claire Edgson, group
IT manager at Chalcroft. "We were able to
offload 98% of the content to different, less expensive tiers of storage. Our
SQL Server was finally able to breathe and it made our SharePoint faster. I
would estimate that what we saved is easily three times what StoragePoint cost
us."

When Chalcroft
initially deployed SharePoint 2010, the company did not realize that its
SharePoint content would grow as rapidly as it did to consume so much valuable
storage space, time, and resources. As a construction company, the content that
was uploaded into SharePoint consisted of very large files, such as blueprints
and drawings, which exceeded 10MB. The deployment began with
less than 1TB of content, but ballooned to 7TB in the first year and
exceeded 25TB in three years-putting a significant stain on the company’s SQL
Server 2008.

After implementing StoragePoint, Chalcroft saw a
change in the performance of its SQL Server and SharePoint environment. The company
also leveraged new capabilities, including the ability to move content to
different locations based on file type, size and need. Chalcroft was able to
set guidelines on storage use and streamline existing processes. By optimizing
its storage space with StoragePoint, Chalcroft was able to save more than £25,000 ($38,000) per year.

Due to SharePoint file
size limitations, Chalcroft had been unable to store, access or backup large files greater than 2GB within SharePoint without StoragePoint.
Now, the company is able to access all of their large content files, such as 3D
models of buildings, through SharePoint.

According to Edgson, they are able to
provide their customers virtual walkthroughs and rely solely on SharePoint for
managing files of any size, which has improved collaboration, productivity and
content governance.

"Chalcroft’s challenges with SharePoint content shed a light on an emerging
problem for enterprise organizations – network strain due to unmanageable,
growing content," said Steven Murphy, CEO, Metalogix. "Both commercial and
government organizations need solutions that ease the storage burden, yet allow
users to access critical content whenever and wherever they need it. With
Metalogix StoragePoint, we provide customers a breakthrough storage
optimization solution that improves the use and performance of SharePoint."

StoragePoint enables
organizations to shrink SharePoint’s SQL databases by up to 95% to slash
storage cost, boost upload and download speed and accelerate backups. With it, organizations can move unstructured SharePoint data, known as
Binary Large Objects (BLOBs), outside of SQL Servers on to affordable external
storage tiers, including SAN, NAS or the cloud.