Metalogix Supports Azure Infrastructure Services

Metalogix
Software Corporation announced its support for Windows
Azure Infrastructure Services across its suite of SharePoint
products.

As a Microsoft Gold Partner and a
managed partner in Microsoft’s High Potential ISV Group, the Azure
support strengthens the relationship between Metalogix, Microsoft and
Microsoft customers.

Windows Azure provides options for
cloud deployments by allowing organizations to create on-demand
infrastructure that scales and adapts to business needs. At the 2013
Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft announced that more than 50%
of Fortune 500 companies are using Azure and 3.2 million
organizations and 68 million users worldwide have adopted Office 365.
With Azure, organizations can deploy infrastructure for SharePoint in
the cloud, which can reduce costs and improve scalability. It also
provides the ability to develop, test and run SharePoint applications
with SQL Server functionality or move existing on-premises SharePoint
applications to cloud for performance benefits.

For organizations moving to Azure, the
products, used by more than 7,500 customers, provide on-ramp to the
cloud to take advantage of the cost, scalability and performance
benefits. The company’s content matrix, which is the industry
standard for SharePoint migration or upgrade projects, provides the
ability for organizations to migrate SharePoint 2003, 2007 and 2010
content directly to SharePoint 2010 and 2013 running on Azure. The
product, which has moved more than 50,000TB in its history,
supports the ongoing management of content in SharePoint running
on-premises and in the Azure cloud, enabling hybrid-cloud scenarios
to move content back and forth between the two.

Organizations can slash SharePoint
storage costs and boost SharePoint performance by offloading
unstructured SharePoint content to Azure. StoragePoint offloads up to
95% of this content, files such as Word documents, PDFs and PPTs
known as Binary Large Objects (BLOBs), from the underlying SQL Server
database to Azure BLOB Storage from on-premises deployments or
SharePoint in the Azure Cloud.

For organizations running Azure
Infrastructure Services and on-premises SharePoint, the Replicator
gives them the ability to synchronize content in real-time between
deployments without the need for multiple data centers. This is
tailored for organizations looking to set up SharePoint extranets to
selectively share content with partners and customers. Organizations
can enable a global SharePoint architecture that ensures content is
up-to-date and served to end users in distributed locations.

"The cloud has become an
increasingly popular option for our customers to manage, store and
access content and Windows Azure Infrastructure Services gives them
more flexibility and options," said Steven Murphy, CEO,
Metalogix. "The suite of Metalogix SharePoint products will
give organizations the tools they need to improve the use and
performance of their SharePoint content on-premises, in the cloud or
in hybrid-cloud scenarios. By using Metalogix and Windows Azure,
organization will realize storage cost savings, better performance
and increased productivity of all end users, regardless of location."