Author Archives: iqbalkhan

Why use On-Premises SharePoint with BLOB Storage in the Cloud?

Posted on August 6, 2012 by iqbalkhan

SharePoint cloud storage can provide significant reduction in cost by drastically reducing the total costs of ownership of storage hardware and its associated management. It is interesting to examine the possible scenarios in which the potentials of cloud based storage … Continue reading →

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Using Windows Azure for smarter BLOBs storage

Posted on April 6, 2012 by iqbalkhan

Windows Azure Platform consists of three product brands. These are Windows Azure (an operating system providing scalable compute and storage facilities), SQL Azure (a cloud-based, scale-out version of SQL Server) and Windows Azure AppFabric. Unstructured data or BLOB storage is … Continue reading →

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Organize SharePoint Content on Remote Storage

Posted on April 6, 2012 by iqbalkhan

With all and sundry blowing the trumpet of externalizing the BLOBs, I decided to explore one of the most important consideration for the SharePoint administrators – the management aspects of the externalized BLOBs. And as expected, StorageEdge didn’t disappoint me … Continue reading →

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Data Security of the Externalized BLOBs

Posted on August 19, 2011 by iqbalkhan

There cannot be two opinions about the significance of pushing the unstructured BLOB content out of SharePoint/SQL Server dynamic duo to the inexpensive storage. However, moving BLOBs to the external storage can result in compromising the externalized BLOBs security. Many … Continue reading →

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Limitations of RBS FileStream Provider

Posted on May 5, 2011 by iqbalkhan

As you know, SharePoint stores all its documents in SQL Server database as BLOBs. But, since SharePoint is a document-heavy product, the SQL Server database very quickly becomes too large to manage and also slows down SharePoint. To handle this, … Continue reading →

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Link Legacy Documents to SharePoint without Copying

Posted on April 19, 2011 by iqbalkhan

SharePoint, as the name suggests, means a place to share something. True to its name, SharePoint is essentially a document-centric collaboration platform, supporting sharing of documents, reports, calendars, lists, announcements and other publishable material. However, despite all the niceties, SharePoint … Continue reading →

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Bandwidth Throttling Prevents SharePoint Slowdown in BLOB Externalization

Posted on March 8, 2011 by iqbalkhan

I’ve already written about the need to externalize BLOBs in SharePoint and how it reduces your storage cost, improves SharePoint performance, and makes SharePoint database management simpler and easier. So, I hope you’re already convinced about the value of that. … Continue reading →

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Reduce Cost with SharePoint Archiving

Posted on February 15, 2011 by iqbalkhan

SharePoint Archiving is an attraction for SharePoint users. SharePoint is a document centric product and the number of documents grows very rapidly in medium to large size company. Even after externalizing all the documents or BLOBs, the amount of storage needed … Continue reading →

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How to Optimize SharePoint Storage

Posted on October 28, 2010 by iqbalkhan

It’s no secret that SharePoint is an extremely popular product because it offers really useful features for organizations that are trying to share documents and enhance collaboration. But, as you probably know, SharePoint content is by nature very document-centric because … Continue reading →

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