Sharepoint Content Storage & Datacenter Solutions | SYNERGY4

SharePoint Solutions:

The ultimate tool to discover all your valuable knowledge assets on your fileservers and migrate them easily and structured to SharePoint: Create and build your Knowledge Base in SharePoint with CiiGrid Delver.

Secure Scalable Storage with STEALTH Software Content Store for SharePoint using External Storage Providers like Caringo CAStor, Scality, Windows Azure, Amazon S3, EMC Atmos. SharePoint 2007 and 2010 are free of SQL storage limitations and offer all parties involved much more capabilities. To see the difference in capabilities between native SharePoint Storage and STEALTH Software, look at the Comparison Overview.

Want more information? Download our presentation about STEALTH Software Content Store for SharePoint using External Storage. Want to try STEALTH Software Content Store for free? Request a downloadlink!

Picture Library Enricher . The tool to make all your images easy findable in SharePoint. All embedded metadata in images like exif, description, titles, keywords, copyrights and GPS coordinates are automatically stored in SharePoint. Ideal tool for large amount of images that have to be uploaded in SharePoint.

Datacenter Solutions:

Clima-Tect is simple but very effective product that saves up to 10% of your datacenter energy bill!  This patented airtight, non-static and unburnable product seals the underground of a server in a datacenter completely off. The product is light and very easy to implement. Very fast ROI (24 – 48 days!).

Zimbra Solutions:

VMWare Zimbra out-of-the-box has one big drawback: The original way of storing all email messages and file attachments is far from optimal. STEALTH Software Content Store for VMWare Zimbra is a clever solution for this drawback: It separates the content (the mail message and its file attachment) from the metadata. The content is stored in a simple, cost-effective storage cluster using Caringo CAStor™. The metadata remain in the MySQL server.

Do you know how much knowledge is stowed away in folders on your fileservers?

Probably there are much more ‘knowledge jewels’ hidden in the catacombs of your fileservers than you or your company is aware of. And does the following situation sound familiar to you?

A collegue has worked several years for the company and has created in those years a large amount of interesting content for the company. The collegue has created his own little kingdom on the fileserver, put his work on the fileserver in a manner that only he/she actually knows where it is being stored. Now this collegue is not (more) available for the company (holidays, illness, left the company) and nobody in the company knows where to find certain information or content created and filed by this absent collegue. So, either the information is sadly skipped or someone else has to create the information / content once again. This ofcourse is a waste of time, money and resources.

Delve your Knowledge Jewels from the FileServer and migrate them in a structured manner to SharePoint

To avoid situations like above, a good solution would be to migrate your files to SharePoint. CiiGrid Delver is a very handy tool to achieve this.
Why choose CiiGrid Delver?

• CiiGrid Delver finds files and folders on local hard disks and network file shares. This content is indexed on date of creation and modification, original and current owner and security settings. No matter where on the fileserver, CiiGrid Delver will find it.
• CiiGrid Delver encourages original and current file owners to enrich the files and folders with context by assigning: tags, rating and classifications. Every piece of content will be assigned to someone responsible (‘Data Ownership’)
• CiiGrid Delver moves the files and folders and collected context to Microsoft SharePoint. It creates sites, document libraries and security settings automatically.

With CiiGrid Delver your decentralized data now have become centralized information!

Screenshots CiiGrid Delver

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Learn more about CiiGrid Delver, download our information package

Do you know that you can save up to 10% on your cooling energy bill for your datacenter? Use Clima-Tect!

Clima-Tect is the ideal solution for the closing of cable openings in the false floors of datacenters

The amount of air loss can be reduced by 99.9% if the line or cable openings in false floors are closed off using Hanno® Clima-Tect, instead of leaving them open. Hanno® Clima-Tect offers the ideal solution: fast, efficient, inexpensive and can be subsequently installed during ongoing operations!

Save energy = Save money

The amount of air loss can be reduced by 99.9% if the line or cable openings in false floors are closed off using Hanno® Clima-Tect, instead of leaving them open. False floors in data centres are normally used for the cabling of network cabinets. The problem here is that a larger part of the cold air which is required for the cooling of the server escapes through the cable openings, reducing the static pressure in the false floor.

The IT market research company Gartner Inc. estimates that between 35% and 50% of the electrical energy is used for cooling. It is even possible to reduce the KWh consumption by between six and seven-figures, not forgetting the related energy costs in small data centres by adopting an optimised process. Gartner has devised “11 Best Practices” in this regard which can clearly reduce the energy consumption and makes the following recommendation: an important and fast measure is to close the openings in false floors (Gartner best practice no. 1: Plug holes in the raised floor). The closing off of these opening can save up to 10% of the total energy which is required for cooling purposes.

With the new Clima-Tect, HANNO is able to provide the ideal solution to this problem. Fast, efficient, inexpensive and easy to subsequently install during ongoing operations, the panels normally pay for themselves after around one month. These do not increase the fire load in data centres as is the case with brush systems or cable bags!
To see how easy HANNO Clima-Tect is to install, click here for the installation manual

So save energy and money today!

Find your images fast and easy in SharePoint thanks to the Picture Library Enricher

It’s great to upload all your images in SharePoint, so everyone can make use of them. But SharePoint out-of-the-box does not store the metadata of these images. So you have to manually enter those in SharePoint otherwise searching will be difficult. As this can be a tedious job we have developed a handy tool that adds the embedded metadata automatically in SharePoint making your images searchable – fast and easy. At the end of this article you can find a link where you can test live our Picture Library Enricher software. Please test with .jpg files, .gif files don’t have exif metadata. And if you want to order, click here.

Metadata make your images searchable in SharePoint

Metadata attached to a file enables you to find that file in SharePoint. The same counts for images. The more metadata attached to the image, the easier you search and find that image. The embedded metadata that are extracted by the Picture Library Enricher and automatically stored in SharePoint when you upload the image, are:

• Exif-data (camera brand/model, ISO speed, Focal Length, Exposure, Aperture, Shutter Time etc)
• Description
• Copyright
• Keywords

Exif and metadata from Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, Picasa, Flickr automatically added in SharePoint

Here you can see an example how your image will look like after you have uploaded it in SharePoint. As you can see you will get all your metadata info nicely attached to your image. And the shown metadata are not restricted to the camera exif only. If you have added information like Title, Description, Copyright in image software programs and websites like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, Picasa and Flickr than this information will also be shown.

GPS Coordinates metadata also in SharePoint

Shortly we will introduce GPS coordinates in our SharePoint Picture Library Enricher. This will be another version of the SharePoint Picture Library Enricher, but users who have the current version of the Picture Library Enricher will get the GPS version as free update. Included with the other photo metadata will be:

• GPS Lattitude Coordinates
• GPS Longitude Coordinates
• Time Stamp

This information can come in handy when you need to store images that are related to geological or geographical information. Here below an impression how this will look like:

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Demo

You can test our application by going to the following demo Sharepoint site:

http://office.cloud4bizz.com/en/PlayGround

UserID: cloud4bizz\S4Demo
Pwd: EDC!@#123

In order to get your exif details in SharePoint it might be neccessary to refresh your page a few times (press F5). We are working on this to solve it, but until now you have to press F5 to get all details on your screen.
Please test with .jpg files, .gif files don’t have exif metadata.

As this is a public site please delete the uploaded images after trying as another visitor might see or download your image(s). We therefore also recommend to use images that are of no value to you and that do not have persons in the image.

Pricing

The price is as follows:
SharePoint Picture Library Enricher :  € 350 / US$ 450 per SharePoint Server / Windows SharePoint Services Server plus 20% annual maintenance fee.
The 20% maintenance fee will entitle you to product support and product improvements in feature and function.

Let us know what you think of our Picture Library Enricher. If you like to order the Picture Library Enricher for SharePoint, please click here.

Get rid of the SQL Lock-in, Choose for the Liberty of External Storage

In the left picture you can see the standard classic Architecture, notice the funnel that arises.

In the right picture you can see the NEW way of Storing Content using STEALTH Content Store for SharePoint. Like a ‘Watercurtain’ the content is stored in an evenly and ordered manner in the external storage. The metadata are the only data being stored in the SQL Server. As these metadata are a fraction of the total data generated your SQL Server will work much more efficient. And this will result in that your SharePoint will perform in a much better way! Moreover, your backup windows and restore times are much faster.
‘Liberated’ from its SQL ‘cage’ your SharePoint environment can scale freely. All of this will result in happy SharePoint users and operational IT managers facing less operational management and operational costs.

Want more information? Download our presentation about STEALTH Software Content Store for SharePoint using External Storage.
Want to try STEALTH Software Content Store for free? Request a downloadlink!

Your valuable SharePoint Content is secured before it is stored in the External Storage

STEALTH Software’s Content Store encrypts the content that is uploaded in SharePoint on-the-fly. This means that the content is secured before it is stored in an external storage platform. This added security to SharePoint data addresses the security concerns that might arise when storing SharePoint content in an external cloud storage platform.

Our government clients demand strong encryption to protect their highly sensitive SharePoint data. Also Health Care clients are mandated to ensure protection and privacy of patient medical records and corporate clients are keen on protecting their critical business data assets.

STEALTH Software Content Store for Microsoft SharePoint now offers them a flexible and secure encryption methodology with which to address those requirements.

Want more information on how we secure your SharePoint content? Download our presentation about STEALTH Software Content Store for SharePoint using External Storage.
Want to try STEALTH Software Content Store for free? Request a downloadlink!

Forget about backup hassle! With your content automatically duplicated in the external storage, you don’t have to worry about backups anymore. It has already been done!

Everyone’s nightmare is the loss of valuable data. So, it’s always important to back up your data – it’s the sensible thing to do. So we back-up on disks, external hard disks and tapes. We use software that does the back up automatically or at least we get a warning that we should back up now. And you or your collegues of the IT-department / external IT service provider make sure that the back up process runs smoothely. But despite this all, you wouldn’t be the first company to find out the back upped data were not back upped at all. Or it was a big hassle to retrieve the data. Not to mention the long restore times.

Using STEALTH Content Store will have your data stored in an external storage environment where your data is automatically copied twice or even three times. Should a server fail, than automatically a new copy will be made. So you will always have at least two copies of your valuable data. No need to back up your (large amount of) data.

STEALTH Content Store reduces the need for a (large amount of) databases. Using STEALTH Software will usually bring back the amount of data in the SQL databases to about 20% of the original amount of data. This is the metadata, and only the metadata in the SQL you need to back up. But your backup window is much shorter now. And your restore / recovery time is much faster. The other 80%,  being the content, is in the external storage where it is duplicated.

Want more information? Download our presentation about STEALTH Software Content Store for SharePoint using External Storage.
Want to try STEALTH Software Content Store for free? Request a downloadlink!

Scale your VMWare Zimbra as big as you want it, not what Zimbra dictates!

VMWare Zimbra Email and Collaboration Server is a mail application that enables users to send and receive mails. All the messages and their attachments are generally stored in a filesystem. But what if the amount of mailboxes is growing rapidly? Than your storageneed will grow too. Especially if the mailbox comes with more and more storage space. All these data have to be stored, safe & secure. If your users make good usage of their mailboxes than you have a storage challenge. But with our software this does not necessarily be a costly challenge.

STEALTH Software stores the messages (also known as unstructured data) on the Cloud Storage and the meta information is stored in the mySQL Server. The content is placed in an external storage environment, like an internal or external Cloud Storage. Now you can scale your VMWare Zimbra as much as you want to. The limit is the storage space in the Cloud (and that’s quite unlimited at this moment). As the policy of the Cloud Storage is ‘pay-what-you-use’ you don’t need to invest upfront in storage. This all dramatically reduces your storage costs! If you use a lot of data the reduction could vary from 60 – 90%!

We can solve your Zimbra Mail Server problem by connecting it to a Caringo CAStor Cloud Storage environment, so why wait any longer?  Get in touch with us so we can help you scale your Zimbra mailboxes! Want to try STEALTH Software Content Store for free? Request a downloadlink!