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Follow on Google News | Chalcroft Quadruples Content Storage Space While Saving $38,000 Annually With Metalogix StoragePointConstruction Company Offloads 24 Terabytes of Content with StoragePoint to Triple ROI and Improve the Performance of its 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 percent of the content (http://www.metalogix.com/ 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 consistently exceeded 10 megabytes. The deployment began with less than one terabyte of content, but ballooned to 7 terabytes in the first year and exceeded 25 terabytes in three years—putting a significant stain on the company’s SQL Server 2008. After implementing Metalogix StoragePoint, Chalcroft immediately saw a dramatic change in the performance of its SQL Server (http://www.metalogix.com/ Due to SharePoint file size limitations, Chalcroft had been unable to store, access or backup extremely 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 (http://www.metalogix.com/ “Chalcroft’ 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 StoragePoint, 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. About Metalogix Metalogix (http://www.metalogix.com/ Metalogix is recognized as the fastest growing software company in the Washington D.C.-area by the Washington Business Journal and named to the 2012 Inc.500 list of fastest growing companies. Metalogix is a Microsoft Gold Partner, a managed partner in Microsoft’s High Potential ISV Group and GSA provider. Metalogix is a privately held company backed by Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. Follow us on LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/ Metalogix, and the Metalogix logo are trademarks of Metalogix Software. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. End
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