Archive360 Unveils FastCollect for SharePoint

Archive360, Inc., registered trademark and Archive2Anywhere, announced its latest generation of FastCollect for SharePoint, including features to analyze and report on SharePoint file consumption and to extend SharePoint Online to more affordable Azure cloud storage tiers.

“Today’s IT organizations are rapidly running out of SharePoint Online storage space, driving cost and management complexity,” said Tibi Popp, co-founder and CTO, Archive360. “With our latest release of FastCollect for SharePoint, SharePoint Online users can get a complete characterization of their current SharePoint Online resources so that they can make informed decisions about storage requirements and allocations. Should extension to more affordable Azure cloud storage tiers be desired, FastCollect for SharePoint automatically enables policy-based file movement to lower cost storage tiers.“

“Storage consumption on SharePoint Online is an increasing challenge,” said said George Crump, chief analyst and founder, Storage Switzerland LLC. “Until now, there hasn’t been an easy way to take a complete inventory of SharePoint usage, forcing many organizations to purchase expensive additional SharePoint storage or limit additional content stored in SharePoint. With FastCollect for SharePoint, the analysis and extension of SharePoint Online data stores can be automated with policy based-precision, saving significant cost and resources.“

Solutions designed to improve  cost and efficiency
of migrating to storing and managing data in  Microsoft cloud include:

• FastCollect for SharePoint – SharePoint Analysis – Using FastCollect for SharePoint Analysis, users can identify their SharePoint sites, collections, libraries and all of the documents associated with those libraries including folder structures and provide a report on overall file consumption. This includes the number of files, size of files, age of files based on create date, file type and last accessed date.

• FastCollect for SharePoint – SharePoint Extension – It enables the creation of automatic, policy-based movement of files from SharePoint Online to more affordable Azure cloud storage tiers (hot, cool and archival) based on characteristics chosen by IT including file age, data last accessed, author, file type, file size, and more. This can result in a potential storage savings of up to 90%.

“For our customers using SharePoint Online, FastCollect for SharePoint provides the insight and automation they need to improve efficiency and reduce costs,” said Bill Tolson, VP, marketing, Archive360. “This means that we can deliver a more in-depth level of support for the SharePoint Online solutions we deliver, while lowering costs and enhancing our customer loyalty.“

FastCollect for SharePoint with SharePoint Analysis and SharePoint Extension is available.