Case Study: Chemical Bank achieves dramatically faster backups and 90% SharePoint content reduction with Metalogix Software (StoragePoint)

Chemical Bank reduces SharePoint content to manageable amount over a weekend

Chemical Bank, a Michigan financial services institution with more than 150 branches and over $6.5 billion in assets, was struggling with SharePoint performance and backups as its content database grew to 300GB (Microsoft recommends ≤200GB), causing full-farm backups of up to 5 hours and jeopardizing recovery objectives. The bank needed a non-disruptive, low‑effort solution with support to reduce database size, improve backups and performance, and selected Metalogix Software’s StoragePoint to address the issue.

Metalogix Software deployed StoragePoint and Chemical ran it over a single weekend, reducing the content database from 300GB to 25GB; full-farm backup time dropped from as much as 5 hours to 50 minutes, front-end performance improved, and end users saw no disruption. StoragePoint also enabled granular restores from the familiar console—letting Chemical Bank eliminate a third‑party backup product—and Metalogix Software provided responsive support during the migration.

Chemical Bank

Adam Larkin

System Administrator