Last year, ESG highlighted the importance of SharePoint as a business application and shared several statistics about its impact on IT infrastructures. The focal point is quickly turning to the importance of the information stored within SharePoint as well as the vast quantity of it. Those organizations that use SharePoint as a file share replacement are quickly finding that the scalability limitations of SQL Server mean that they have merely shifted the storage burden from one repository to another. In other instances, companies may be trying to limit SharePoint usage for business records. In either scenario, the files within SharePoint may be considered “in scope” of a regulatory audit or electronic discovery request. As a result of these trends, ESG believes that organizations will soon follow the precedent set by e-mail archiving a few years back and turn to archiving in order to consolidate data residing at disparate SharePoint farms in a central location, reducing storage costs and facilitating legal hold and electronic evidence collection.