Hitachi data discovery for Microsoft® SharePoint ® Solution Scaling Your SharePoint Environment

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2. agenda • Business Description • Problem • Business Impact • Solution Description • Reference Architecture • Features and Benefits • Summary • Next Steps

3. Business Description • High adoption rate, growing like weeds • Difficult to plan for the amount of content and size of SQL server • Policies and governance often not set for content

4. The Problem SharePoint allows for the quick and easy creation of central document repositories accessible from anywhere. Microsoft SharePointEnvironment • However, customers face several challenges: • SharePoint proliferation • Data growth and redundancy (another silo) • Difficulty searching across SharePoint sites • Increasing management costs and complexity • Infrastructure costs (servers, licenses, backup hardware and software) • Lengthy backup and restore processes • Scarcity of SharePoint expertise • Lack of compliance, governance and security practice NOT SCALABLE

5. Impact to Business • Financial impact • Expensive storage for SQL server • High management cost due to long backup cycles of database • Increased license and hardware costs • Operational impact • Large SQL server database can impact SharePoint performance • As data increases, multiple SQL servers are required

6. Solution Description • Hitachi Data Discovery for Microsoft SharePoint provides • SharePoint users with a secure, Microsoft-oriented interface to • essential productivity and business improvement features: • Reduce SharePoint SQL storage footprint • Current and required SQL storage • Reduce SharePoint SQL backup requirements • Move SQL data to an archive platform • Reclaim expensive SAN or Tier 1 capacity • Tier data to less expensive storage media • Improve SharePoint SQL performance • Query and retrieval time • Data movement transparent to user • Dramatically improve SharePoint scalability • Grow and consolidate • Cloud enabled

7. Reference Architecture • Basic or Farm Model • Simplify integration for either single server (basic) or multiserverSharePoint farm • Free up resources by relocating SharePoint content to Hitachi Content Platform or Hitachi NAS Platform • Use cost-effective, scalable, searchable and tamperproof archive and restore for multiple data types Office 2007 Encoded workflow • Search Option (For Hitachi Content Platform Only) • Advanced searches that include data that is not in SharePoint and is stored in Hitachi Content Platform • Restoration of single files to SharePoint • Setting retention, shredding and litigation holds to search results SharePoint Ingestion • Decreases total cost of ownership of SharePoint, because less hardware and fewer SQL servers, licenses and Windows operating systems are required • Improves efficiency by automating data archiving and management processes • Mitigates compliance and litigation risks by taking action on data based on policies HCP or HNAS Retrieval • HNAS = Hitachi NAS Platform, powered by BlueArc® • HCP = Hitachi Content Platform (Default Namespace Only)

8. Here’s How We Address the Problemof SharePoint Proliferation *Shredding is only for Hitachi Content Platform

9. Cost Savings Reduce the impact of SharePoint proliferation Improve storage and IT efficiency Operational Impact Improve SharePoint scalability Reduce required SharePoint backups Best-in-class Solution Provide access to as much as 40PB of capacity Access information without any change Summary

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11. Action plan and key dates

12. Questions and discussion

13. Thank you