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Overview of Shredded Storage Whitepaper
Bill Baer has released a great overview of shredded storage, highlighting how different storage strategies evolved from SharePoint Portal Server 2001 on to present day: From http://blogs.technet.com/b/wbaer/archive/2013/09/17/overview-of-shredded-storage-in-sharepoint-2013.aspx “Shredded Storage is a new storage model implementation in SharePoint Server 2013 used to provide smoother I/O patterns, improve data transfer performance, and reduce storage utilization when using […]
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Why SharePoint 2013? Some great reasons to upgrade from SharePoint 2010
We (Sean, Colin & I) we’re recently asked to offer some good reasons for one to consider upgrading from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013. Here’s some of the goodness: Inline search – search and then filter in one go – BIG! OWA integration is huge – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and PDF viewing (and editing, […]
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Shredded Storage in SharePoint 2013
A hyped but under-explained new feature of SharePoint 2013 that will be of great interest to DBA’s and admins is Shredded Storage. If you are familiar with differential database backups, think of Shredded Storage as a differential method of storing documents. For example, in SharePoint 2010 when you save X versions of a document in […]