Exponential data growth is stressing capacity and performance inside SMB data centers and making storage a strategic priority. The constant generation of large files, mandates to retain data for long periods of time, demands to ensure productivity, and budgetary constraints have IT teams searching for a solution that increases capacity and performance while streamlining management to reduce overhead.

Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 running on Dell PowerVault NX3100 NAS devices are allowing IT departments to cost-effectively expand capacity and improve performance while simplifying and streamlining storage infrastructures. Check out this short white paper to explore 3 particular use cases that are proving the Dell-Microsoft platform’s ability to address storage challenges:

• Storing virtual machines on PowerVault NX3100 NAS devices
• Setting Microsoft Exchange as an iSCSI target in Windows Storage Server
• Using BranchCache to reduce WAN traffic