Definition
Capture, retain, index, and search files from Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services to optimize server performance, storage utilization, and end-user experience.
Challenges
- Adopting SharePoint Server rapidly without causing exponential storage growth
- Needing critical SharePoint application scalability and performance
- Wasting storage space with multiple and older versions of the same files
- Finding that discovery requests and electronic document retention requirements extend to SharePoint information
Symantec Solution: Archiving
Automate movement and retention of unstructured information to improve performance, scale, and manageability of applications. Also, optimize storage while reducing risk and costs associated with providing transparent end-user access and efficient.
- Enable granular archiving, single-instancing, and compression across all SharePoint document libraries, folders, and items
- Optimize performance and scalability
- Enable efficient document versioning control; maintain transparent access to archived files with the same end-user ease of use as with personal storage files and Lotus Notes
- Respond rapidly to search requests with centralized and indexed archived SharePoint information





