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Can Microsoft SharePoint 2007 and 2010 be WORM-compliant? The answer is YES

Sat, 15 May 2010 18:43:33 GMT

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

Microsoft SharePoint EBS External Blob Store & RBS Remote Blob Store API - the key to ...

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:40:19 GMT

Recently I bumped on a blog article that was two years old but seen the comments the discussion was still alive. The article was about the fact that Microsoft stored its SharePoint content in SQL Server with al its limitations like backup and restore issues and storing less important content on expensive storage, but with the EBS External Blob Store API Microsoft provided a way out. You could connect to an external storage but Microsft itself was not going to provide that. Their argument is that they are software company and not willing to take care of all the various hardware the external storage could run on. That was a challenge for either the hardware vendors or the software developers. Well, if you have been to our site before and now about STEALTH Software than you know the answer... Anyhow, the writer of the article was not

SharePoint 2010 as Enterprise Content Management

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:27:56 GMT

Microsoft is positioning the new coming SharePoint as an Enterprise Content Management. Microsoft's mantra is 'everyone participates and all content is managed,' but how far is SharePoint indeed ready to be an Enterprise Content Management?

Not being the expert on SharePoint 2010 myself, I like to refer to an article that I read from Andrew Chapman who is the Senior Director of the SharePoint Technologies Group in EMC’s Content Management and Archiving division and I what I thought was very informative. He gives a walk through the content management-centric features of SharePoint 2010, and let's you see what works, and what areas need improvement according to his own opinion. You can read his article here.

My interest was to see how far can SharePoint 2010 develop as a central content hub for an organization. More and more content is being created so a central place where you

How 'hypothetical' are company data disasters?

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:26:57 GMT

This weekend I read an article by Rachel Lebeaux who wrote an article on Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plans. She referred to the big problems that Wordpress.com – a leading worldwide blogging platform experienced last Thursday. For a full 110 minutes (nearly two hours!) the whole Wordpress blogging platform was down. This meant that 10,2 million personal and business blogs were down. An estimated 5,5 million page views were lost. The reason according to the official Wordpress.com blog was: “...but it appears an unscheduled change to a core router by one of our datacenter providers messed up our network in a way we haven’t experienced before, and broke the site. It also broke all the mechanisms for failover between our locations in San Antonio and Chicago. All of your data was safe and secure, we just couldn’t serve it.”

It makes clear that Disaster