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15 May 2010
I read on a SharePoint blog a question of 'Pat'. She argued that SharePoint cannot be used as a complete Document Management System as SharePoint stores the documents in Blobs which are not accepted by European Firms for Certification, like in Germany the TÜV. The criteria is that all Archived Documents are to be stored on Media that cannot be modified later on. In other Words you have to store archived documents on WORM Storage.
The question is: Can Microsoft SharePoint 2007 and 2010 be WORM compliant?
Pat is correct, when she states that BLOB’s are not the place for archived content. Also a file system is not the place for an archive. We have the same rules in the Netherlands and we see them on all places in the World, that archived content must be under control by a device (WORM Write Once Read Many, CAS Content Addressed Storage) or software that protects the content for changes. Furthermore, the device or software should give you auditing possibilities when someone is trying to modify and access the archived content. Native SharePoint is not build for long time archiving, so you need the SharePoint Record Center function of SharePoint. By using SharePoint Record Center it gives you the possibility to archive content for a long time. By using EMC Centera, Caringo CAStor, HDS Hitachi Content Platform and DELL DX Object Store - which are all CAS systems - you can add the WORM functionality to SharePoint. As stated before, SharePoint 2007 or 2010 out-of-the-box does not connect to WORM storage, you need a special connector for this. STEALTH Content Store for SharePoint is such a connector.
So can Microsoft SharePoint 2007 and 2010 be WORM compliant? The answer is: YES
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Learn more about other extra capabilities your SharePoint gets when you use STEALTH Software Content Store to connect to external storage by reading this Capabilities Overview
