Kroll Ontrack launches software with SharePoint restoration and search capabilities
Ontrack PowerControls product suite enhanced to include SharePoint recovery tool
Kroll Ontrack®, the leading provider of data recovery and data management products
and services, has launched Ontrack® PowerControls™ 5.1.
The new tool allows IT and Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Administrators to
easily and efficiently search and restore items on a SharePoint server. Administrators
familiar with Ontrack PowerControls for Exchange product can now apply the
same time and cost saving recovery capabilities to this widely used enterprise
content management (ECM) application.
"While SharePoint has many Enterprise Content Management (ECM) benefits,
the risk of accidental deletion or inaccurate editing creates demand for a
tool to restore information from backups" said Alastair Molyneux, business
development manager at Kroll Ontrack UK. "Regulatory and legal demands further
emphasise the importance of archiving or restoring SharePoint data. With Ontrack
PowerControls for SharePoint, restoration is no longer a technically difficult
and involved process."
Specifically, the benefits of utilising Ontrack PowerControls for SharePoint
include:
- Less time to restore an individual document, item, list, folder or library
– Administrators no longer need to perform a full site restoration in order
to locate specific items
- Eliminating the same site restore constraint – Ontrack PowerControls
for SharePoint enables users to restore to the original or alternate SharePoint
locations, allowing restoration directly into a production SharePoint server
or to a file system. This eradicates the need for an expensive recovery server
- Minimising the time to locate all matching specific criteria – With
an advanced search feature that performs across all content databases, administrators
can target a variety of criteria, including item type, keywords, subject,
date, specific users, and file and attachment data
- Maintaining data integrity
of the SharePoint source and target – Ontrack PowerControls for SharePoint
maintains data integrity by performing read-only operations on the source
files and will not alter data when accessing the target
- Minimising the costs
involved in restoring lost items – The tool can read existing content database
backups, so no modification of backup infrastructure or procedures is necessary
