Mimosa Launches SharePoint Archiving and Recovery!
Today, Mimosa announced NearPoint for SharePoint, our archiving and recovery solution to help organizations enhance their investment in SharePoint. We all know SharePoint is a great tool – it gives users a much better way to collaborate. In a global world full of virtual workers, SharePoint is one of the most important tools on the market. In some of our earlier blogs, we identified some of the challenges with managing SharePoint deployments – Jason Sherry talked about data management challenges like backup and recovery and Martin Tuip explained how storage management can be a challenge.
It’s not just Mimosa’s folks that are talking about SharePoint. Because of broad adoption, SharePoint is a hot subject all over the place. We especially like to follow what some of the SharePoint MVPs are saying. (Microsoft MVPs are experts in a specific technology and are great resources for information). What’s great is that the MVPs are pointing out the challenges with SharePoint that Mimosa NearPoint for SharePoint directly addresses. Robert Bouge points out in his blog that, with native SharePoint tools, it can be a “fairly onerous task to simple restore a single file.” That’s why NearPoint offers both item-level and coarse-grained recovery for SharePoint. Mike Watson calls for “innovative fixes” when it comes to issues like item-level recovery.
When it comes to the challenges of backup and restoration of SharePoint, even Microsoft Technet points out that “as part of a farm backup, [STSADM, a native SharePoint backup tool] can back up the configuration database and the Central Administration content database, but will not restore them.”
What we’re excited about is bringing centralized control for storage management, retention management, and recovery to SharePoint environments. That way, customers can leverage their investment in SharePoint while ensuring that reduce costs as much as possible and mitigate risk with item-level legal holds across distributed deployments. Take a look at Mimosa NearPoint for SharePoint and let us know what you think. Thanks!
