In this epsiode of the SharePointPoidcast you will hear the fourth part of a recording from SharePoint MVP Dan Holme's workshop "SharePoint Uncensored: Architecting SharePoint for Governance, Manageability, and Business Value". Dan is AvePoint's Chief SharePoint Evangelist and presented this workshop at the Berlin SharePoint user group on October 24, 2011. The recording has been split into 4 episodes: SharePointPocast 184 - Managing the SharePoint Disruption SharePointPocast 185 - Architecting SharePoint Governance SharePointPocast 186 - SharePoint Insanity Demystified SharePointPocast 187 - To BLOB or Not to BLOB? To BLOB or Not to BLOB? Content Scalability and Storage Optimization SharePoint and SQL Server offer several methods with which you can externalize the BLOBs—the files that are stored in libraries and as attachments—to reduce the size of your content databases. BLOB externalization offers benefits beyond reduced storage cost—benefits that may surprise you! But there’s a lot of hype and misunderstanding about BLOB externalization, which is neither a silver bullet nor evil incarnate. Take away a balanced, intelligent, detailed understanding of the technologies and issues surrounding BLOB externalization. Dive deep into the performance impact, scalability implications, and critical considerations for backup and restore, high availability, and disaster recovery. To BLOB or not to BLOB? There are no easy answers, but after this session you will have what it takes to maximize the potential of BLOB externalization in your storage architecture. Download the Slides

In this epsiode of the SharePointPoidcast you will hear the fourth part of a recording from SharePoint MVP Dan Holme’s workshop

“SharePoint Uncensored: Architecting SharePoint for Governance, Manageability, and Business Value”.

Dan is AvePoint‘s Chief SharePoint Evangelist and presented this workshop at the Berlin SharePoint user group on October 24, 2011.

The recording has been split into 4 episodes:

• SharePointPocast 184 – Managing the SharePoint Disruption
• SharePointPocast 185 – Architecting SharePoint Governance
• SharePointPocast 186 – SharePoint Insanity Demystified
• SharePointPocast 187 – To BLOB or Not to BLOB?

To BLOB or Not to BLOB? Content Scalability and Storage Optimization

SharePoint and SQL Server offer several methods with which you can externalize the BLOBs—the files that are stored in libraries and as attachments—to reduce the size of your content databases. BLOB externalization offers benefits beyond reduced storage cost—benefits that may surprise you! But there’s a lot of hype and misunderstanding about BLOB externalization, which is neither a silver bullet nor evil incarnate. Take away a balanced, intelligent, detailed understanding of the technologies and issues surrounding BLOB externalization. Dive deep into the performance impact, scalability implications, and critical considerations for backup and restore, high availability, and disaster recovery. To BLOB or not to BLOB? There are no easy answers, but after this session you will have what it takes to maximize the potential of BLOB externalization in your storage architecture.

Download the Slides

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