Virtual tape library and deduplication software
provider FalconStor has teamed up with Microsoft Office SharePoint management
and administration software vendor Idera to help solution providers tap into
the growing need for efficient storage and management of data generated by
SharePoint Server.
Microsoft's SharePoint Server has seen incredible growth and adoption, says
Rick Pleczko, President and CEO of Idera. In fact, Pleczko says SharePoint is
Microsoft's fastest-growing product, and has generated about $1 billion dollars
in a year for the software giant.
SharePoint as a collaboration platform maintains much vital business
information and integrates into customers' business processes. Idera and FalconStor
Software together will offer solution providers—both their own and the
Microsoft partner community—an effective backup and recovery solution together
with data deduplication for SharePoint applications using Idera's SharePoint backup and
FalconStor's FDS (File-interface Deduplication System).
Click here to read more about FalconStor's enterprise backup offerings.
As customers use SharePoint across their
organizations, the amount of data produced increases exponentially, and
FalconStor and Idera's new partnership can help Microsoft solution providers
more easily manage, monitor and secure all types of SharePoint-generated
content for customers, Pleczko says.
"What really drove this is actually the rapid adoption of SharePoint as an
enterprise content management solution, and the amount of content people are
storing in SharePoint these days," says Pleczko. "Because SharePoint
is so easy to deploy and manage, storage requirements for content generated are
growing phenomenally."
Pleczko says there are a number of solutions that are targeted at the exact
issue, but most are just add-on functionality or adaptations of existing
solutions. By partnering with FalconStor, Idera and FalconStor will be able to
deliver the first real new solution aimed directly at the unique needs of
SharePoint users, he says.
For the large numbers of solution providers focusing on SharePoint deployment
and integration, the joint solution will better enable them to deliver a solution
that includes FalconStor's deduplication technology to increase storage
utilization rates, speed backup and recovery, and eliminate redundancy,
combined with Idera's software to quickly and securely store all types of
content, according to the companies.
Fadi Albatal, director of marketing at FalconStor, says SharePoint generates a
lot of duplicate data by virtue of its integrated collaboration features, which
let multiple users work on the same documents and files. This creates a
situation where there could be many similar instances and different versions of
files and applications, which, when backups are performed, introduces a lot of
redundancy.
"Deduplication allows for the backup and storage only of the most recent,
up-to-date files," Albatal says. "Solution providers and customers
also benefit from the FalconStor software's replication features so they can
perform business continuity/disaster recovery services for SharePoint by
replicating content to a remote site," he says.
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