Archiving for Microsoft
Gain Control of Exchange, File and Sharepoint with Scalar’s Archive Appliance
The Business Challenge
Explosive Email Growth
Messaging data continues to grow at exponential rates. According to the Radicati Group (Sept 2006), the average corporate e-mail user generates about 16.4 MB per day; this is expected to grow to over 21.4 MB per user per day in 2010. The size of messaging stores, coupled with increasing litigation, puts organizations at greater risk. Standards for civil litigation such as the Federal Rules for Civil Procedure (FRCP), industry regulations, privacy acts, evolving case law and freedom of information acts require that more and more e-mail be preserved for longer periods of time. Businesses need to control growth and costs of storing Exchange data, while also being able to respond efficiently and effectively to legal discovery actions.
Sharepoint Collaboration and Content Management
Microsoft SharePoint software is an effective tool for creation and organization of enterprise content, document sharing and for streamlining collaborative business processes. However, according to Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), SharePoint is becoming a problem for many companies because of its use as a standard for information sharing and collaboration (March 2007). The proliferation of SharePoint data causes storage costs to skyrocket, while users continue to demand access to their knowledge assets.
Massive growth in unstructured electronic data
Faced with explosive growth of electronic data, many organizations are looking for a cost effective archive. Archiving allows preservation, transparent retrieval and discovery of information held within file system and network attached storage (NAS) environments. Large file shares can contain vast stores of unmanaged, aged data stored on expensive storage. Opportunities to recycle existing storage capacity, address new retention requirements and control the size of active file stores by employing centralized, policy-based storage can reduce costs and simplify management. Migrating aged data from file systems and NAS devices to secondary, tiered-storage balances storage utilization across the enterprise and maintains transparent end-user access.
The Solution
Scalar Decisions recognizes the challenges associated with managing growth and the need for comprehensive, reliable solutions that can be implemented with minimal effort and maximum impact. To that end, we have packaged a series of pre-built solutions targeted at the SMB market comprised of Commvault and Sun Microsystems software, server, and storage technology designed to integrate into your Microsoft environment and providing archiving services for Exchange, Sharepoint, and File Services. Each packaged solution is pre-built prior to delivery to minimize onsite configuration and integration effort, and includes Scalar Decisions Quickstart services for a complete solution.
Three models of are being offered as purpose built, integrated solutions:
 Small Business Edition
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 Medium Business Edition
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 Large Business Edition
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These solutions may be customized to add additional functionality if desired, including backup and recovery, off-site replication services, compliance and litigation support, and outsourced management among many others. Support for Lotus Notes is also available. In addition, a customized solution is available for larger clients and specialized implementations.
About Commvault
CommVault® Archive products enable enterprise-wide storage management and e-discovery with solutions for email, collaboration, file system and Network Attached Storage (NAS) data. With built-in tiered storage and multi-platform support including Microsoft Exchange servers, IBM Lotus systems, and Microsoft SharePoint data, comprehensive archive management is simplified. Active migration of network attached storage (NAS), e-mail and file system data reduces primary storage use, extending the life of storage systems and reducing the time required for data protection. Active archive of e-mail data preserves it for compliance and discovery purposes.
The Sun Storage 7000 series is a family of unified storage systems that offers new innovations in storage, including enterprise class data services, massive scale, and superior performance while delivering significant cost savings. These systems feature a common, easy to use management interface, that requires no additional training, and have the industry’s most comprehensive analytics environment to help isolate and resolve issues to minimize impact to your business.
About Sun
Sun’s Unified Storage Systems deliver higher performance at up to 75%less cost than traditional storage solutions by utilizing cost effective components and providing a rich set of built-in software features. While many other vendors charge license fees for protocols and data services such as CIFS, NFS, HTTP, and Replication, these and other software features are included in the price of Sun Unified Storage Systems. No additional software licenses are required. The systems also offer economic value by reducing energy consumption and datacenter space requirements. Energy efficiency is improved through the use of 7200 RPM drives and SSD, both of which require significantly less power to operate than 15K RPM drives.