The Netherlands, Bunschoten, April 17, 2009 - STEALTH Software is a Dutch software development organization dedicated to enabling a broad spectrum of organizations to become operationally more efficient and effective today, announced the availability of
STEALTH Content Store for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Caringo's CAStor™ content storage system.
Caringo's CAStor™ content storage system in Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 Server.Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is fundamentally dedicated to unstructured document storage, structured list storage, and group collaboration, using Microsoft SQL Server for storage purposes. Although Microsoft SQL Server is a highly efficient resource manager for structured data, in a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 content database, a large proportion of data files are represented as unstructured binary files—that is, binary large object (BLOB) data files.
The challenge, however, is that Microsoft SQL Server doesn't offer the most efficient way for storing unstructured binary data streams because unstructured binary data does not expose itself to the rich SQL query environment. BLOB data is not able to leverage one of Microsoft SQL Server's most useful features, its query engine causing its value as a BLOB store to be limited. Because Microsoft SQL Server offers less of a gain for binary data, server farms can gain cost savings by using an external content store for this purpose.
The solution, then, is using Caringo CAStor as a simple, cost-effective storage medium to function as an External BLOB Store (EBS). The EBS runs parallel to the site's Microsoft SQL Server content database, which stores the SharePoint site's structured data. To coordinate the two data stores, it’s essential to implement the STEALTH Content Store for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, which uses simple semantics to recognize file commands and invokes redirection calls to the Caringo's CAStor™ when it recognizes BLOB data objects.
“Caringo is a perfect partner for STEALTH Software with their approach to improve the cost efficiency of enterprise storage,” said Osgar de Laat, CEO of STEALTH Software “Caringo and STEALTH Software have both embraced a vendor-agnostic approach, freeing customers from the dependency and extra costs of proprietary approaches to storage. An integration of STEALTH Content Store for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is one of the smartest and most cost-effective actions a company can take to throttle out of control storage costs in a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 environment.”
“We are very excited about STEALTH Software’s solution enabling CAStor as a content store for SharePoint,” said Mark Goros, Caringo CEO. “This new solution solves a large challenge for organizations that wish to accelerate their use of SharePoint. A large portion of MOSS implementations are used primarily for storing and sharing unstructured data or BLOBs and this combined solution allows customers to optimize their SharePoint sites.”Caringo's disruptive CAStor technology is built on innovative object-based storage architecture, delivering the most complete set of features to address massive content storage as well as the growing requirements for compliance. It provides WORM storage, content integrity and authenticity meeting regulatory mandates such as SEC17a4 and HIPAA. CAStor is scalable, high performance and extremely cost effective content storage software that runs on standard, commodity x86 hardware enabling users to build massive storage clusters without the vendor lock-in of traditional storage products. The result is a clustered storage solution with unmatched scalability, data integrity, performance and reliability that dramatically reduces the TCO of enterprise storage.
About Caringo
Caringo Inc. is an innovative provider focused on delivering the most advanced object-based software technology for accessing, storing and distributing unstructured or file-based content. Its flagship product, CAStor, dramatically improves the scope and economics of content storage by enabling customers to implement robust storage clusters without being locked into proprietary hardware. Founded on the operating principle that things should be made as simple as possible and a customer-first focus, Caringo makes content and file storage affordable, scalable, fast and easy. More information can be found at
www.caringo.com.
About STEALTH Software
Founded in 2003, STEALTH Software is a private company headquartered in Bunschoten, The Netherlands. STEALTH Software is a software development organization dedicated to enable a broad spectrum of organizations to become operationally more effective and efficient. For more than 5 years, we have accomplished this by developing and marketing STEALTH eDiscovery®, STEALTH Archive® and STEALTH Content Store®.
The STEALTH Software solution consists of a number of modules, and is constantly expanding. As a customer-driven organization committed to providing premium service and support, the company is dedicated to develop Archiving software that is deployable at both the departmental, enterprise and SMB levels. We address our customers' needs with products that set the standard for out-of-the-box functionality and people who set the standard for responsiveness, honesty and integrity. More information can be found at
www.stealth-soft.com.