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Metalogix acquires StoragePoint

SharePoint Infrastructure leaders combine to enable enterprise-scale SharePoint deployments without boundaries.

By Soarsoft International
Johannesburg, 19 Apr 2010

Soarsoft Africa, local distributor for the Metalogix product set, has expanded its offering in line with Metalogix's acquisition of StoragePoint software.

Metalogix Software, leading provider of solutions for Microsoft SharePoint migration, management, and archiving as well as Exchange migration and archiving, has now added StoragePoint software to its suite of products.

Winner of Microsoft's SharePoint 2010 Innovative ISV award, StoragePoint enables organisations to shrink their SharePoint 2007/2010 content databases up to between 90% and 95% by keeping content BLOBs (Binary Large Objects) out of SharePoint's SQL database and storing them on virtually any on-premise or cloud storage platform.

Installed and configured in minutes, StoragePoint improves SharePoint performance, manageability and security without any sacrifice to functionality or user experience. With StoragePoint, SharePoint content size can scale to over two terabytes, while the content database remains within Microsoft's guidelines.

The StoragePoint acquisition broadens Metalogix's comprehensive set of enterprise-class products, which also include migration, management and archiving of SharePoint content.

“Incorporating StoragePoint into our existing suite of solutions for SharePoint was an easy decision,” said Chris Risley, CEO of Metalogix. “When you're managing an organisation's most-valued asset, their corporate information, remote content storage software must absolutely be world-class. This critical function cannot be left to unproven products, developer experimentation or, worse, freeware. StoragePoint is the only solution in the market today that meets the high reliability and security requirements of US Federal Agencies, and the performance and cost savings requirements of the Fortune 2000. Every StoragePoint customer we interviewed was extremely happy with their decision to purchase StoragePoint.”

Risley continued: “In the next few weeks we expect to sign the StoragePoint resellers as Metalogix resellers and to train Metalogix's partners around the world on the value they can deliver to their customers with StoragePoint. To ensure the same level of excellence, all of the StoragePoint employees and management team will join Metalogix.”

“We couldn't be happier as a team to join Metalogix,” said Rob D'Oria, CTO of StoragePoint. “They are focused on building high value, high quality products for SharePoint and providing an exceptional customer experience, something we have always been recognised for as a team. With Metalogix's seasoned leadership team, the backing of Insight Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners, and an impressive group of technologists in North America and abroad, it won't be long before we are the recognised leader in SharePoint Infrastructure.”

A free trial of StoragePoint may be downloaded from http://www.metalogix.net/Products/StoragePoint/.

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Soarsoft Africa

Soarsoft Africa is an archiving, migration and messaging specialist, with nine years of experience with solutions that will help you efficiently manage, archive, search, retain and dispose of your electronic information over the long-term. Soarsoft has specialised in corporate archiving, migration and messaging solutions, and has over the years selected only "best of breed", trusted and proven products that are continuously evaluated to ensure they maintain a market leadership position.

The information contained in enterprise systems represents critical business intellectual capital that needs to be continuously accessed for daily operations, requiring hardened, trusted and proven solutions.

Soarsoft has offices in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa, and brings together nearly a decade of experience in the supply, project management and support of enterprise information management solutions for leading organisations in Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the USA.

Metalogix Software

Metalogix Software delivers award-winning content migration, management and archiving software that enables organisations to migrate, manage, archive and recover enterprise content to ensure availability, regulatory compliance, efficiency and cost effectiveness. It supports its more than 5 000 customers worldwide from eight office locations: Boston, Dallas and Ann Arbor, (US), Vancouver and Halifax (Canada) London (UK), Bratislava (Slovakia), and Schaffhausen (Switzerland). Originally founded in 2001, Metalogix of Canada merged with the archiving business of H & S Software in 2008. Profitable and privately held, Metalogix's investors include Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. Metalogix is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.

Metalogix and all other Metalogix Inc. product or service names are trademarks of Metalogix Inc. in the USA and other countries. Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective companies. Copyright 2009 Metalogix Inc. All rights reserved.

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George Amoils
Soarsoft International
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georgea@soarsoft.co.za