Swiss company balesio has released a solution based on balesio’s FILEminimizer technology to reduce the file storage volume on Microsoft SharePoint.

FILEminimizer SharePoint promises to reduce the size of images and Microsoft Office files shared via SharePoin, by an average 70 percent through its content-aware, native optimisation processes.

Unlike LZ and Zip compression, the FILEminimizer optimization preserves the original file format leading not only to enormous storage savings on Microsoft SharePoint but also to significant performance increases of the optimised, smaller files.

The plug-in monitors the upload of files to SharePoint and defines the optimisation rules and criteria to be applied, triggering the native file optimisation of uploaded files before they are stored in the SharePoint database. The optimisation process itself can be outsourced to a dedicated server in order not to consume too much resources of the Microsoft SharePoint server. The entirely transparent optimization process takes place in the normal Microsoft SharePoint workflow and is invisible to end users.

balesio’s CEO, Daniel Bernard, comments the new release: “Microsoft SharePoint’s rapid adoption is putting a headache to SharePoint administrators who need to cope with growing SharePoint storage demand and complexity. We developed FILEminimizer SharePoint to offer SharePoint administrators a solution to significantly reduce the data volume stored on Microsoft SharePoint and to reduce the expensive costs for SharePoint storage.”

balesio offers FILEminimizer Server to reduce data volume on file servers and storage systems like SAN and NAS as well as a desktop/client version which integrates into email communication systems such as Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes.