Case Study: Chalcroft offloads 24 TB of SharePoint content, frees SQL Server and saves £25,000/year with Metalogix Software's StoragePoint

Chalcroft Offloads 24 TBs of SharePoint Content With Metalogix StoragePoint

Chalcroft, a U.K. construction firm, was overwhelmed when its SharePoint 2010 deployment grew from under 1 TB to roughly 25 TB, filled with large blueprints, photos and videos that had to be retained for up to 12 years. The surge of content was crippling their SQL Server 2008 and degrading SharePoint performance, so they turned to Metalogix Software and its StoragePoint Remote BLOB Storage (RBS) solution to address the storage crisis.

Metalogix Software implemented StoragePoint to offload BLOBs to multiple, cost‑tiered storage locations (32 locations), moving about 98% of content out of SQL Server. The result was immediate: SQL Server “could breathe,” SharePoint performance improved, storage capacity effectively quadrupled versus keeping everything in SQL, and Chalcroft cut storage spend to roughly one‑tenth—saving about £25,000 per year and recouping several times the cost of StoragePoint.

Chalcroft

Claire Edgson

Group IT Manager