Small businesses, corporate workgroups, and branch offices with increasing data storage needs are the target market for Dell's recently announced PowerVault 745N network attached storage (NAS) server. The PowerVault 745N provides up to 4 TB of external SCSI-attached storage along with ease-of-use features that are critical to the entry-level market.

In addition to new levels of expandability, the system's management features and performance capabilities deliver advanced functionality for business tasks such as data consolidation and backup. Powered by Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003 and the latest Intel processors, it can be deployed quickly and easily onto virtually any network. Deployment has been simplified to take as little as 15 minutes.

The 1U rack-optimized PowerVault 745N offers customers a choice of Intel Celeron or Pentium 4 processor with speeds up to 3.2 GHz and storage capacity ranging from 160GB to 4TB, so that storage systems can scale to accommodate business growth.

The PowerVault 745N also comes with advanced software options that help ease system administration and increase data protection. For example, customers can take Snapshot Copies of their data, a critical data protection feature that allows them to quickly revert back to previous versions of data in the case of software issues or accidental file deletion.

Dell status reporting tools and Web-based management tools provide real-time system utilization and performance information and enable remote monitoring from a central console.

The PowerVault 745N also supports Dell PowerVault tape back-up devices and data protection software from VERITAS and Yosemite Technologies for fast, simple backup to disk and tape capabilities.

The PowerVault 745N storage server, available worldwide immediately for prices starting at $1799, supports Windows, Linux, NetWare, UNIX and Macintosh environments.