Storage and SharePoint

May 15, 2012 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Storage and SharePoint

Optimizing storage to meet the needs of scalability for productivity and cost control is important for any business, and users of Microsoft SharePoint are no exception. SharePoint automatically stores data in SQL Server content databases. As a relational database, SQL is efficient at storing structured data, but less so when dealing with larger, non-relational data streams. Unfortunately, this can often account for up to 95 percent of all data in a typical organization.

SharePoint users have several options to keep the cost of storage in check. One would be to leverage aggressive content life-cycle management policies to address or delete SharePoint content that has not been accessed or modified in a specified time frame. Another would be to set strict site quotas and locks that prevent users from uploading significant amounts of data in particular lists.

This interesting information was found in Computer World UK’s blog post titled, “Save money with smart content storage in SharePoint.”

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.