Business NeedsThe immediate draw to cloud computing is clear: reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) and less hardware for IT administrators to maintain. Leveraging the cloud to either host Microsoft® SharePoint® Products and Technologies – through Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure offerings, for instance – or to optimize storage resources by incorporating cloud storage solutions into storage architecture, could also reduce cost while improving global access to SharePoint content.

Organizations that are cautious about switching to cloud computing, but want to start enjoying its potential benefits today, can do so with “hybrid” deployments. Hybrid deployments include both on-premises and cloud computing counterparts of a SharePoint environment as well as cloud-based and on-premises information or storage architectures.

By facilitating movement to the cloud as well as the co-existence and integration of all currently deployed SharePoint environments, AvePoint’s DocAve Software Platform and Amazon Web Services seamlessly fulfill organizations’ needs for true hybrid management of on-premises and cloud-based SharePoint environments through a single platform.

DocAve’s geo-replication solution ensures optimal SharePoint performance and content availability by automating publication and replication, configurations, and security within or across globally distributed, hosted environments.

DocAve’s storage management and optimization solutions leverage Microsoft-supported APIs to scale SharePoint's architecture to utilize storage platforms, such as Amazon S3, to better accommodate growth and reduce SharePoint’s overall TCO, which ultimately enable organizations to gain more value from their cloud computing initiatives.

ChallengesFor organizations wanting to extend SharePoint’s information architecture to the cloud, organizations must find ways to:

Expedite content publishing to the cloud in order to decrease time-to- deployment Simplify security, content, and configuration management for multiple-farm or hybrid SharePoint environments Streamline change management for content and applications, thereby decreasing time-to-value

In order to maintain optimal performance and reduce SharePoint’s TCO, organizations can:

Leverage BLOB externalization technologies to optimize SQL resources and improve performance Store externalized Binary Large Objects (BLOBs), audit logs, records, or obsolete content on scalable, cost-effective storage services such as Amazon S3

Reduced SharePoint TCO and Operational Expenses

Intelligent, Scalable Storage Optimization Solutions for Full SharePoint Content Lifecycle

Fully Integrated and ScalableSharePoint Management

Protect all externalized BLOBs, solutions, configurations, contentand web front-end components, regardless of where they reside

Seamlessly move content to the cloud and synchronize on-premises and

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With DocAve, organizations can seamlessly manage and integrate their on-premises and cloud-based SharePoint investments whilecontinuing to evolve their usage of the platform.

DocAve helps organizations rapidly deploy and scale SharePoint’s information and storage architecture to the cloud in order to reduce time-to-value for SharePoint initiatives while accommodating growth.

Using cloud infrastructure services, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), e-commerce organizations are presented with a comprehensive virtualized computing environment, allowing the utilization of customized SharePoint environments as their application platform of choice in the cloud.

Complete Optimization of Hybrid SharePoint Environments Utilizing Amazon Web Services:

Extend SharePoint storage technologies beyond Microsoft® SQL Server® to Amazon S3 with DocAve Storage Manager to improve performance and reduce storage costs.

Archive end-of-life content (from SQL Server and/or BLOB stores) to Amazon S3 for rule-driven storage tiering, long-term retention, and content expiration to automate content lifecycle management, while allowing for seamless end-user access and interaction with DocAve Archiver.

SharePoint Content Lifecycle Management for Amazon Web Services:

Facilitate movement to the AWS Cloud as well as co-existence and integration of all currently deployed SharePoint environments, bothon-premises and cloud-based.

Synchronize and integrate critical SharePoint data across local or globally distributed SharePoint environments to the AWS Cloud with DocAve Replicator.

The DocAve Software Platform empowers organizations to integrate cloud computing as their specific business needs dictate. DocAve is the industry’s only fully integrated platform for SharePoint management, protection, storage optimization, and content lifecycle management.

DocAve Difference

Comprehensive SharePoint Data Protection:

All externalized SharePoint content stored using AWS cloud storage services, as well as solutions, configurations, and Web front-end components, can still be managed and protected with DocAve’s Data Protection Suite, ensuring all content – residing in SQL Server or otherwise – is completely protected for the full duration of the SharePoint content lifecycle.

Infrastructure Management

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