Microsoft SharePoint has emerged as a leading enterprise collaboration platform. But SharePoint deployments come with significant challenges surrounding hardware cost, performance bottlenecks, and management complexity. Nimble Storage addresses these challenges head-on with its converged storage, backup, and disaster recovery solution for SharePoint Server environments.

Benefits for SharePoint Deployments

Nimble offers high performance, low cost storage and backup solutions for SharePoint that enable IT departments to cost-effectively keep up with fast SharePoint farm growth while improving data protection and disaster recovery capabilities.

Nimble enables customers to:

• Meet the Performance and Scalability Needs of Growing SharePoint Deployments
  Built-in SharePoint performance profiles automatically optimize storage characteristics and performance for SharePoint workloads. The flash layer enables high random performance for the content and index databases, improving user-experiences in performance and latency. The scale-out architecture can extend to support even the largest SharePoint deployments in cost-effective increments.

• Achieve 60% Cost Reduction
  Fast inline compression technology leads to 2x primary capacity consumption reduction for typical SharePoint content. Combined with the cost-effective capacity and converged backup capabilities of the CASL architecture, this offers a storage and backup solution for Microsoft SharePoint that costs 60% less than alternatives and provides even bigger savings in rack space, power and cooling, and ongoing management expense.

• Backup and Restore SharePoint Farms Instantly, and Replicate Offsite Frequently
  Nimble arrays enable instant backup and restore, eliminating backup windows. Nimble Protection Manager (standard on every Nimble array) enables management of application-consistent backups and replicas of all SharePoint components. WAN-efficient replication and fast failover provide quick, cost-effective disaster recovery. The combination enables dramatically better RPOs and RTOs than alternate solutions.

• Restore Deleted or Overwritten Items Quickly
  Automated data placement in the Nimble CASL architecture enables administrators to cost-effectively extend the first-stage recycle bins as well as Site Collection Recycle Bins up to 60 or even 90 days, while enabling versioning on active document libraries. The familiar interface makes it comfortable for users to find and recover files quickly, simplifying this common task and speeding up recovery of accidentally deleted or overwritten items.

• Simplified SharePoint Storage and Backup Management
  Designed for the IT generalist, the intuitive Nimble UI eliminates the complexity of managing separate storage, backup, and disaster recovery devices. Predefined SharePoint performance and data protection policies allow new volumes to be created in just three steps. In combination with Nimble Protection Manager, this dramatically simplifies backup and replica management within SharePoint environments.