One of the many roles of an AvePoint Systems Engineer is to provide professional services to customers who have recently purchased DocAve. These customers might be looking to gain additional value out of our products by being taught how to leverage all of the included functionality, or they might simply be looking for training on how to properly configure and tune their DocAve system. My most recent on-site professional services visit was to a large enterprise customer near Washington, D.C. This customer was interested in learning best practices for DocAve deployment and configuration. I arrived on-site and began configuring the backup plans. During configuration of the platform-level backup, I noticed this customer had over 200 content databases! When I asked why they had so many content databases, I was told that on recommendation from a high-ranking SharePoint consultant, they were told to associate one content database per site collection in order to attain site-collection restore granularity! They certainly had their site-collection restore granularity all right...Anytime they lost a site they could restore the content database, but these 200 content DB's were making SharePoint management a nightmare! Think about the time required to mirror 200 content DB's over to standby server! What happens when you need to add a user to 200 site collections? DocAve was able to provide them with item-level restore granularity, allowing this customer to consolidate down to a reasonable number of content databases, saving a lot of headaches.