AvePoint Announces Comprehensive Backend Support for SharePoint Hosting Companies

Over 20 tools provide full-spectrum infrastructure management support for both hosts and tenents, including SharePoint backup and recovery, administration, replication, compliance, reporting, testing, and migration

Jersey City, N.J. – August 10, 2009 — AvePoint, the leading provider of infrastructure management software solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, today announced that its entire line of products are now fully optimized for use by SharePoint hosting companies and hosted customers. With best-of-breed software solutions for backup and recovery, compliance, administration, archiving, replication, reporting, and migration, AvePoint has made it easier and more cost-effective for hosting companies and both dedicated and multi-tenant clients to optimize, protect, and manage their mission-critical SharePoint deployments.

"The hosting-model has evolved into a very efficient and reliable option for organizations deploying SharePoint around the globe", said Tianyi (TJ) Jiang, AvePoint´s COO. "Hosting companies are delivering the platform security and deployment management services that organizations demand for their mission-critical SharePoint instances, in a cost-effective manner. One of AvePoint´s primary objectives has been to optimize our portfolio of backend management solutions for this model, so both hosting companies and their customers can fully leverage SharePoint for success. The demand for backup and recovery, centralized administration, and legal and regulatory compliance solutions has been especially strong, and we are committed to providing the most comprehensive tools available."

AvePoint´s SharePoint tools prove ideal for both Dedicated and Multi-Tenent SharePoint environments

AvePoints has optimized its entire lineup of SharePoint solutions to support the management and protection of multi-tenant and dedicated environments. DocAve, the company´s flagship platform, offers twenty independently-deployable modules whose features can be offered to tenant and dedicated customers on a pay-per-service or per-user/month model:

Data Protection

• DocAve Backup and Recovery - Delivers full-fidelity, item-through-platfrom level protection for SharePoint. AvePoint´s pioneering Business Criticality Matrix empowers hosting companies to offer tenants scaling data protection options, based upon the tenant-defined criticality of its content at the site level, and the modification frequency of this data. The automated matrix provides hosts an elegant interface through which to manage the backup plans of its tenants efficiently. DocAve´s platform-level protection empowers hosts to ensure their customers can recover from platform-loss with speed and minimal manual effort, by synchronously protecting all elements critical to the platform that do not reside in the Content Database.

• DocAve High Availability - Enables hosts to offer tenants access to a warm, fully synchronized stand-by environment for uninterrupted access should their production environment fail or become corrupted.

Administration

• DocAve SharePoint Administrator - Lets hosting companies and/or their clients search, discover, and manage the configurations,settings,and securities of any number of SharePoint deployments, all from a single interface.

• DocAve Content Manager - Enables the real-time movement of SharePoint content within or across SharePoint farms with drag-and-drop ease.

• DocAve Deployment Manager - Automates the propogation of server configurations, customizations, Nintex Workflows, and SharePoint Designer Elements among development, testing, and production farms.

Compliance

• DocAve Vault - Provides the tools necessary to satisfy all SharePoint retention policies and auditing requirements. Let´s hosted organizations securely store all records and audit data with ease, meet regulatory policies with confidence, and avoid unnecessary legal exposure. With advanced and timeline-based searching across archived content for legal discovery, audit, and review - DocAve Vault is the industry´s most powerful and flexible compliance archiving solution for Microsoft SharePoint.

• DocAve Auditor - Enables SharePoint administrators of hosted deploayments track and record all SharePoint interactions, including usage, search, and security changes. This vital information not only enables intelligent strategic planning, but also confident compliance with regulations and best practice protocols.

• eDiscovery - Delivers the tool hosted organizations require to meet all eDiscovery obligations with regard to their hosted SharePoint deployment - from responsive content identification and reporting, to legal holds and access-sensitive archiving - all in a cost-effective and resource-efficient manner.

In addition to the eight solutions/modules highlighted above, AvePoint´s entire lineup of SharePoint infrastructure management tools are fully optimized for use by SharePoint hosting companies and their customers.

AvePoint´s Pricing Models Deliver Value for Hosting Company and Tenant Alike

AvePoint has priced its lineup of SharePoint infrastructure management tools to meet the needs of the highly competitive hosting sector. Multi-tenant hosting pricing is based on a per solution, per month/server model. For those hosts wanting to offer AvePoint´s products as self-service tools to dedicated deployment clients, AvePoint provides significant reseller discounts and other valuable remunerations. Premier business application hosting companies around the world have already taken advantage of AvePoint´s best-of-breed products and host-exclusive pricing program. Industry leaders USA.net, Sagitec, Xcentric, Apps4Rent, and CH2M Hill have incorporated AvePoint solutions into their SharePoint management routines and service offerings.

To learn more about how AvePoint is providing the tools hosting companies need to deliver top-flight service to their clients, please visit the AvePoint website at: http://www.avepoint.com/sharepoint-solutions/hosting-companies/

To speak to a member of the AvePoint Hosting Solutions team, please email or call +1 201-793-1111 x1076.

About AvePoint

AvePoint is proud to be a U.S. based technology company and software innovator. Since 2001, AvePoint has been a global leader in enterprise-strength infrastructure management solutions for all Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. Propelled by one of the world's largest SharePoint-exclusive development teams outside of Microsoft, AvePoint's award-winning DocAve Software Platform delivers comprehensive and flexible infrastructure support for backup and recovery, replication, migration, administration, archiving, deployment management, and compliance.

AvePoint's pioneering technology pilots the products of OEM partners such as NetApp and IBM. With headquarters, research facilities, and engineering centers in Jersey City, NJ, and wholly owned engineering centers and sales offices in San Jose, Atlanta, Chicago, Washington D.C., and Houston, USA; London, UK; Melbourne, Australia; Tokyo, Japan; Singapore; and Changchun, Dalian, China, AvePoint serves over 4000 enterprise customers, including many Fortune-500 companies. Winner of the Best of Tech Ed award for "Best SharePoint Product" in 2008, AvePoint is a Managed Gold Certified Microsoft Partner and GSA Certified Provider.

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AvePoint
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