This week, Seagate WSS NAS joined Seagate’s line of Business NAS solutions. With optional add-ins, it seamlessly integrates with industry-leading cloud services. So your team can collaborate any time, anywhere on any device through applications you already know and use. It uses a new Windows Storage Server software to manage your networked data automatically, on your familiar applications. And its Seagate Monitor gives you easy access to key NAS features for centralizing data management, storage and backup. Seagate Monitor simplifies the management experience by highlighting storage-specific tools and settings.
Collaboration is key for every growing business and having your content accessible to your team at a moments notice is mandatory in today’s environment. Remote web access gives you the accessibility while also keeping your intellectual property (memos, product designs, demo videos, customer presentations, research studies, forecasts, customer lists, etc) fully secure in your own private cloud.
Simple, automated backup — plus flexible, scalable enterprise-level server functions
Seagate WSS NAS is built for small- and medium-sized businesses, so it’s affordable and minimizes your costs and complexity. But surprisingly, it won’t hold back your growth. It’s powered by the latest cloud-enabled version of Windows Storage Server, with a list of features usually found on enterprise-level products, such as automatic backup, domain server, secure remote access, deduplication, VPN and storage pools. This advanced set of features is built in with flexible deployment in mind; you can turn on the features you need as you need them — so you can grow right when you need to grow, rather than being delayed by an unexpected need to upgrade, or starting from scratch by installing a new more complex storage system.
This new NAS option also, of course, carries certain Seagate advantages: it’s a total solution, with your choice of diskless or populated boxes, it uses the industry’s best-in-class hardware platform, it features an integrated dashboard for simple user experience, and of course there’s Seagate’s world-class warranty and support.
What NAS features are most important to your business?
Top Features: (if these are on your wish list, take a deeper look at Seagate WSS NAS here)
- Centralized network storage – Let all the computers in your business access, collaborate and share files.
- Remote Web Access – Improve productivity and streamline collaboration with a Windows NAS that’s accessible with virtually every Internet connected device. Add Microsoft’s enterprise class security and you have a secure, private cloud that all of your employees can access regardless of their device.
- Dual-Core Intel Atom Processor – Combined with Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Essentials, it delivers incredible network file transfer performance up to 200MB/s.
- Microsoft Office 365 Integration – Allows businesses to tie their storage to the Office 365 Cloud. Server sync allows for single-sign-on user experience, whether the user is local or remote.
- Domain Server – Affordable domain server capabilities. Your Windows NAS can now act as the primary server in a multi-server environment.
- NAS HDD drives – Designed specifically for NAS environments, Seagate NAS HDDs are built and tested to provide industry-leading performance for 24×7 NAS applications. Seagate WSS NAS is also compatible with Seagate’s Enterprise NAS drives, including the new 6TB capacity.
- Microsoft Azure Cloud Backup – Secure your critical business data with unified Azure Cloud backup integration.
- Data Deduplication – Control data growth by only removing duplicate data. Allows server to create smaller backups making the Windows NAS more efficient.
- Automatic Client Computer Backup – Streamlines data recovery or client system upgrades by having all PC data stored in one central location.
- File History – Scans and saves updated files, making recovery of an overwritten or deleted file easy and without the need for IT assistance.
- Windows Storage Spaces – Automatically manages installed drives to give you the best blend of capacity and redundancy all while allowing you to scale as your business grows.
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Who is John Paulsen? A former small-business leader myself, I feel your pain (and joy) and hope you’ll enjoy the blog. I launched and ran a well-regarded production company in San Francisco with a team of 9 brilliant, hard working people. I learned to manage a wide array of tasks a small business must handle — business strategy, facilities design, HR, payroll, taxes, marketing, all the way down to choosing telecom equipment and spec’ing a server system to help my team collaborate in real-time on dense media projects from multiple production rooms. I’ve partnered with and learned from dozens of small business owners.
