AvePoint intros DocAve SQL Restore Controller

JERSEY CITY, USA: AvePoint, provider of infrastructure management software solutions for Microsoft SharePoint has announced the free release of the DocAve SQL Restore Controller.

This tool enables the full fidelity, item-level restoration of SharePoint content from native SQL database backups, as well as databases restored by any third-party SQL backup tool, including Microsoft's Data Protection Manager (DPM).

"We are proud to be able to offer this tool free of charge", said Dr. Tianyi Jiang, AvePoint's chief operating officer.

Jiang added, "In 2001, AvePoint was the first solution provider to offer full fidelity, item-level restores of SharePoint content. Because we now provide a broad spectrum of SharePoint backend management solutions, this tool for free is a great way to expose those new SharePoint adopters to DocAve's powerful capabilities and ease of use. Releasing it free of charge is a small way for us to say 'thank you' to the SharePoint community."

The SQL Restore Controller is one tool within the DocAve Software Platform, a unified SharePoint infrastructure management solution offering 16 independently deployable modules.

Kathleen Winder, Microsoft's director of SharePoint and FAST Partners said, "By enabling item-level restores of SharePoint content from Microsoft Data Protection Manager and SQL database backups, this tool complements DPM's functionality, and will extend DPM's position as the premier multi-platform data protection solution on the market."

AvePoint is offering its SQL Restore Controller free of charge in part due to the changing landscape of the SharePoint backup and recovery space.

As SharePoint adoption accelerates, and the platform is leveraged for increasingly mission-critical tasks, including enterprise content management and knowledge worker collaboration, administrators are recognizing the critical need for comprehensive data protection beyond what SQL backups can provide.

One component of such protection is the ability to protect the entire SharePoint farm, including all server configurations, settings, and files that reside outside of the SQL database. The second component of comprehensive protection is the ability to perform granular backups, which empowers organizations to prioritize their various SharePoint datasets and apply discrete backup routines to each in order to optimize storage resources.

These two key capabilities are critical in ensuring appropriately fast recovery should SharePoint content become accidentally deleted or corrupted.

When organizations first deploy SharePoint, however, such functionality is usually not yet a chief concern. As a result, the ability to restore at the item-level from SQL Server backups is usually both sufficient and highly useful. By providing such a tool free, AvePoint wants to provide these organizations with the opportunity to utilize the industry's most award-winning and reliable SharePoint solution to meet its immediate needs.

As the SharePoint deployments at these organizations expand and evolve into a more business-critical application, administrators will then be able to seamlessly upgrade their data protection solution without having to change platforms, since DocAve's full-featured Backup and Recovery module provides all the capabilities they'll require.

"AvePoint's new release is great news for the SharePoint community", commented Shane Young, SharePoint MVP and founder of the consulting firm SharePoint911.

"This tool will allow administrators of SharePoint environments that are not necessarily 'business-critical' recover content with dexterity and speed. Though reliance upon SQL backups for data protection is not adequate for larger or more critical deployments - where granularity of backup and protection of critical elements residing outside the Content DB is vital - AvePoint's free SQL Restore Controller will certainly empower the SharePoint community and shake-up the market."