IT teams are increasingly being asked to do more with less. Storage profiling and benchmarking frameworks like ESRP and SPC-1 help IT teams to design storage solutions that will perform predictably and cost effectively in support of mission critical Exchange deployments. With multiple application servers relying on a shared storage infrastructure, there is a worry that performance requirements can‘t be met affordably. In this report, Enterprise Strategy Group discusses how Hitachi midrange storage systems can be deployed to cost-effectively provide easy-to-configure storage for Exchange environments of all sizes with excellent operational efficiency, offering affordable scalability, reliability, availability, and performance.