Metalogix Software, a provider of productivity software for Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Exchange, has introduced its Archiving Express for SharePoint, a SharePoint archiving product.
The company claimed that the new offering improves SharePoint system performance and reduces overall backup and restores time by 50%. The backup volumes are reduced by removing duplicate data through the Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) engine. It also cuts bloated portal sizes by up to 80% and offloads less active documents to less expensive storage.
Metalogix Archiving Express for SharePoint is reportedly a fourth-generation archiving product available free of cost. The free tool automates enforcement of retention policies for all SharePoint content. The company said by reducing the SharePoint production database, it also improves system performance while giving online access to archiving documents from within the SharePoint application.
The company claimed, with features to automate disaster recovery and shorten backup times for SharePoint Archiving environment, the new offering is expected to provide search, retention and disposition capabilities to help companies execute internal policies and meet Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) requirements. Users of other Metalogix archiving products (Exchange or Files) can reportedly search for email, files, and/or SharePoint from a single view.
Chris Risley, CEO of Metalogix, said: We are happy to offer our SharePoint archiving solution for free to the SharePoint community because we know that administrators are struggling to optimise the performance of their content database.
We are committed to the SharePoint community and this free product addresses a key concern we have been increasingly hearing from our SharePoint admin customers. Through active feedback from our freeware users, we will continue to enhance our product and deliver the archiving solution that organisations need today and in the future as SharePoint archives continue to grow exponentially.
