A big frustration with SharePoint is the way SharePoint stores content, it stores everything in SQL BLOBs (Binary Large OBjects). I have a site collection for an Accounting Department which has grown to over 200GB. In this article I will use StoragePoint, a product made by BlueThread (http://www.storagepoint.com), to externalize my content to a file […]

StoragePoint is a product that allows you to externalize your SharePoint data from SQL BLOBs (Binary Large OBjects) to almost any conceivable storage device available and optionally you can store the externalized content compressed and/or encrypted. As per Microsoft’s recommendation a content database should not exceed 100GB, if you have a content database over 100GB […]