Metalogix - Knight Frank LLP Migrates, Manages and Protects it's Critical SharePoint Environment

Company Name: Metalogix

SharePoint Topic: Content Management

Challenge: London-based Knight Frank relies on SharePoint as its company-wide collaboration and communication solution. The organization determined that it was time to migrate from its current SharePoint 2007 platform to SharePoint 2010 so that it could improve user productivity. The project at first seemed very daunting since Knight Frank had more than 700GB on a single content database. Even worse, the bloated database was causing backup problems and single document restores were very difficult to achieve.

Benefits and Outcomes: Since implementing Metalogix StoragePoint, Knight Frank's database has been reduced from 700GB to 48GB. The solution externalizes unstructured SharePoint content known as binary large objects (BLOBs) to be stored on less expensive or more appropriate storage systems.

Knight Frank leveraged Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint for its upgrade to SharePoint 2010, which allowed the company to quickly and transparently migrate all SharePoint sites, libraries, lists, web parts and permissions between servers. For those individual documents and list items stored in native SharePoint backups, Knight Frank used Selective Restore Manager for SharePoint to simplify the process of restoring items, without having to rebuild the entire product database or deploy a temporary SharePoint recovery farm.