Cloudy with a Chance of Savings

We've been promoting Cloud storage as a way to help organizations save time and money storing some, if not all, their SharePoint content BLOBs.  There are savings on the front-end in not having to acquire storage infrastructure and supporting replication and disaster recovery solutions.  The savings can also pile up month-to-month because you don't have on-going care and feeding to worry about. 

From a SharePoint BLOB storage perspective the only real cost to store the BLOBs to a Cloud storage platform is a solution to externalize/move/relocate the BLOBs from SQL database(s) and any month-to-month usage costs (i.e. storage and bandwidth).  We have a Tiered Storage ROI Calculator (requires Silverlight) that can help you estimate what the cost savings and ROI with the cost of StoragePoint factored in.

Well, we've decided to save organizations even more on Cloud storage.  For a limited time we are offering up our Windows Azure BLOB Storage Adapter at no cost.  That's a savings of $4,995 per production SharePoint server and $895 per non-production SharePoint server.  To get started...

Request a free 30 day trial: http://www.storagepoint.com/product.aspx?tab=4

Request a quote: http://www.storagepoint.com/requestquote.aspx?DC=CLOUDFREE or navigate to http://www.storagepoint.com/requestquote.aspx and enter CLOUDFREE into he Discount Code box.  Make sure to check Windows Azure Adapter in the Optional StoragePoint Adapters list.

Promotion Rules

• Promotion ends March 31st, 2010
• You will receive one free Azure adapter license for each production and non-production core license you purchase.
• Offer cannot be combined with any other offers or discounts.
• Not valid with special pricing programs, including Educational, Not-for-Profit, and Government (i.e. GSA).
• For direct purchases only.  This promotion is not being offered through resellers or distributors.

NOTE: We do not sell non-production licenses without the purchase of at least 1 production license. The promotional discount will not be applied to any Software Support and Maintenance fees quoted/purchased. Those fees will be calculated on the retail list price of all software licenses purchased.

Here's a quick video on how StoragePoint puts SharePoint content BLOBs to the Azure Cloud: