Enterprise Vault

“Just buy more storage!”

How many times have you heard that statement or something to that effect over the last few years when faced with large scale information growth?

The truth is we are all suffering from a data explosion, whether that is content specific (email) or just a result of the way you regularly interact with friends, family and colleagues (social media). The difference now is that truly we are reaching the limits of just buying or provisioning more storage to solve this problem. What do you realistically do with 500TB of PST file data? How to you unravel 10TB of Exchange mailbox database information?

The more information we hoard and store away the harder it eventually becomes to find that information and the harder it becomes for businesses to ensure that critical data is stored safely and that other non-critical data is not. It also becomes harder to enforce any kind of deletion of that data because, simply put, where do you start?...

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) issued Regulatory Notice 11-48 last month to request public comment on a proposed new rule requiring carrying/clearing organizations to maintain various records for FINRA, the SEC and the Securities Investor Protection Corporation.  If the new rule – proposed FINRA Rule 4516 (Readily Identifiable and Accessible Records) – is adopted by the SEC, it would provide additional justification for certain financial services companies to deploy automated archiving software such as Enterprise Vault to address the challenges of regulatory recordkeeping.

The purpose of proposed FINRA Rule 4516 is to protect investors in the event a clearing organization can no longer continue to operate due to financial or operational problems.  A clearing organization is an entity through which futures and other derivative transactions are cleared...

Some of you may be aware of a scenario in which the reclamation of Exchange 2010 database whitespace during item deletion or truncation is not as great as expected. So why is this a problem for Enterprise Vault customers?

Archiving data from a mailbox will frequently invoke either a deletion or truncation request to the Exchange server. If Exchange is not fully honouring this request then the database from which a customer is archiving will continue to grow as pending whitespace reclamation requests are not processed fully and available whitespace is not recognised.

The good news is that Microsoft have recognised and now resolved the issue: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2621266

So what was the problem?

In summary the primary complaint was that in some cases Exchange 2010 customers were noticing that their mailbox databases were continuing to grow even though archiving...

If you have not seen the movie “Super Size Me,” you have most likely heard  of it.  The film is a documentary where the lead eats 3 meals a day at the golden arches for one month and super sizes each meal.  As a result, he proceeds to see negative effects  - lack of energy,  weight gain,  decreased performance.  Sure, bigger can be better… but will super sizing your SharePoint storage environment (because you can) be your answer?

Did you know…? *

• Scale is a focus for SharePoint– Microsoft Scalability highlighted updated performance numbers and a scalability demo featuring a 14TB single content database that successfully failed over in 5 seconds  (very impressive)
• 80% of Fortune 500 companies have deployed SharePoint
• There are over 65,000 unique customers

So where does that leave SharePoint customers?   Growth is inevitable.  How you handle...