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.