STEALTH Content Store for
SharePoint using Windows Azure
Boosting your SharePoint to the MAX!
"Optimizing your Business behind the scenes"
Overview
• Microsoft SharePoint
• Enterprise Content management
• STEALTH Software
• STEALTH Content Store for Optimizing your Business behind the scenes
External Storage for SharePoint
• Microsoft
• Windows Azure
Optimizing your Business behind the scenes
Microsoft SharePoint - Classic Storage
The Classic Way of Storing Content Standard SharePoint Architecture
“The Funnel” •2-3 Front End servers (load Balancing)
•1 Microsoft SQL Server
Office Office
Office SharePoint SharePoint SharePoint
Server2007 Server2007 Server2007
•1 Application/Index Server
Front-End Servers
Content & Meta data Content and Meta Data Flow
•All content goes to the SQL Database.
•All Content is going to one Storage point - SQL.
Office SharePoint •Databases are growing – performance decreases.
Server2007
•Operations has problems with their backup window.
Office SharePoint
Server2007
•Restore becomes more and more a problem.
•Roll-out of SharePoint slows down.
Application SQL Server •End Users are unhappy with the solution, etc.
Index Server
“Typically, as much as 80 percent of data for an enterprise-scale deployment of
Windows SharePoint Office 2007 Server consists of file-based content that are stored as BLOB data.
These BLOB objects comprise data associated with SharePoint files. However, maintaining large quantities
of BLOB data in a Microsoft SQL Server database is a suboptimal use of SQL Server resources.
You can achieve more value at lower cost with equivalent efficiency by using an external data store.”
Statement of Microsoft Corporation
Optimizing your Business behind the scenes
Microsoft SharePoint - Optimal Storage
The New Way of Storing Content
“The Watercurtain”
Office SharePoint SharePoint
Office SharePoint Office Office SharePoint
Server2007 Server2007 Server2007 Server2007
Microsoft SQL Server
Optimizing your Business behind the scenes
Meta data
Office SharePoint
Server2007
Massive Read &
Write
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STEALTH Software
• STEALTH Software is a Dutch Software House specialized in
building Content Providers connecting applications to Cloud Storage
environments
• STEALTH Software was founded in 2007 and is privately owned
and funded
• STEALTH Software provides the Integration layer between front-end
applications like Microsoft SharePoint and VMware Zimbra
Collaboration Suite and the Cloud Storage layer
• STEALTH Software delivers Content Providers for many Cloud
Storage Software suppliers like Microsoft Windows Azure™
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The STEALTH Content Store
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
SharePoint Office 2007 Server
Is an Interface between
Windows SharePoint Services SharePoint and External
Object Model
Storage
Storage Access Stack
Relational STEALTH Content
Is not intrusive to SharePoint
Access Store
Is supported by Microsoft
Is based on industry standards
SQL Server External
Content DB Storage
Optimizing your Business behind the scenes
Classic Way vs New ‘STEALTH’ way
The Classic Way of Storing Content The New Way of Storing Content
“The Funnel” Using STEALTH Software
“The Watercurtain”
Office Office
Office SharePoint SharePoint SharePoint
Server2007 Server2007 Server2007 Office Office
Office SharePoint SharePoint SharePoint
Server2007 Server2007 Server2007
Content & Meta data
Office SharePoint
Server2007 Office SharePoint
Server2007
Office SharePoint
Server2007
Office SharePoint
Server2007
Windows Azure
SQL Server
SQL Server
Standard SharePoint Architecture NEW SharePoint Architecture
•2-3 Front End servers (load Balancing)
•2-3 Front End servers (load Balancing)
•1+N Microsoft SQL Server (Content & Meta data) •1 Microsoft SQL Server only Metadata
•1 Application/Index Server •1 Application/Index Server
•Limited Scalability
•Scalable to the MAX!
Optimizing your Business behind the scenes
STEALTH and Windows Azure
Office SharePoint SharePoint SharePoint
Office SharePoint Office Office
Server2007 Server2007 Server2007 Server2007
Microsoft SQL Server
Meta data
Office SharePoint
Server2007
Optimizing your Business behind the scenes
Massive Read &
Write
Our Software, Your Hardware
Optimizing your Business behind the scenes
STEALTH Web Console
• Configuration Manager
– Configuring Content Store
– Configure Lazy Garbage Collector
• STEALTH Reporting
– External vs. SQL Database storage used
– Number of SharePoint Front-End servers in Use
– Cross Charge Reports for Hosting Providers
Optimizing your Business behind the scenes
STEALTH Web Console
• Manage multiple
SharePoint
farms from one
Web Console
• Quick view on
the SharePoint
environment
Optimizing your Business behind the scenes
STEALTH Web Console
• Trending
Optimizing your Business behind the scenes
STEALTH Web Console
• External
Storage vs.
SQL database
Storage in use
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STEALTH Software Next release
• STEALTH Content Store for Windows Azure for
Microsoft SharePoint Record Center.
• Full Support for Microsoft SharePoint 2010.
• GA after GA Release of Microsoft SharePoint
2010.
Solution Value
• Solution Value Optimize capital expenses
• Trade cost effective content storage for expensive
• SQL Server database storage
• Improved operational expenses
• Enables seamless storage management
• Facilitates cost-effective business continuance and disaster recovery
• Delivers richer content management policies
• Robust archival and immutable writes
• Guaranteed retention and deletion
• Easy installation and implementation
• Tooling for automated migration of existing SharePoint repositories
• Quick Return on Investment
• Non-Intrusive Services
• Service that doesn't interfere with MOSS 2007
• No installation of web parts nor placement of Stubs in MOSS 2007
• Application management remains at cost low, no extra overhead to manage
stub handling and web part management
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Operational Benefits
• Operational Benefits
– Performance of the Microsoft SharePoint server improves
significantly;
– Reliability of the Microsoft SharePoint server improves
significantly;
– Restore times of backup / recovery are much faster;
– Scalability of Microsoft SharePoint server improves significantly;
– Regulatory requirements of the application are managed through
storage and archiving;
– Easy Installation and Implementation;
– STEALTH Software is non-intrusive meaning that users will not
notice a difference;
– STEALTH Software accepts all upgrades as it is not part of the
Microsoft SharePoint application.
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Financial Benefits
• Financial Benefits
– Less investment in SQL server hardware;
– Upfront storage investments are smaller as it is easier to grow
your storage capacity in smaller steps;
– No need to invest in backup solutions as separate backup is not
needed anymore;
– Less operational management costs;
– No need for upgrade licenses. One lifetime license per
SharePoint server plus annual maintenance fee is all that it
takes.
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STEALTH Software Partners
STEALTH Software’s software enables our Partners – Value Added Resellers,
System Integrators and Distributors – to more cost effectively and efficiently
deliver a complete and proven solution to their end-user customers.
Using STEALTH Software’s software-based solutions Partners can provide a
comprehensive solution to meet their customers’ compliance, information
governance and legal discovery requirements.
For more information regarding the STEALTH Software Partner Program fill out the Partner
Registration Form at our Channel Sales & Marketing Partner SYNERGY4 -
www.synergy4.eu.
• SYNERGY4 is Channel Sales & Marketing Partner for STEALTH Software
• SYNERGY4 handles licensing STEALTH Content with Channel Partners
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Questions
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Please visit our website:
www.stealthsoftware.eu
"Optimizing your Business behind the scenes"