Things to Know before Switching your SMB to NAS

When investigating NAS appliances, small- to medium-sized businesses need to look past the basic features offered by vendors to ensure expandability and integration requirements will be met. This Search Storage report offers guidance for SMBs just getting started.

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"The basic question small businesses must ask themselves is what is the objective of moving to NAS? For most SMBs, the benefits of implementing NAS into their data storage environment may include the following: consolidation of file server administration, technology refreshes, reduction of licensing and maintenance costs, and increased flexibility. For example, if the organization has a hard performance requirement for its shared storage resources, this makes a compelling argument for NAS because most NAS solutions are tuned for high volumes of users and files on a given share as opposed to most typical Windows file server installations, which are out-of-the box installs with little to no performance-tuning considerations."

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