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- NAS storage... Do you use them?
- My manager has started looking into a NAS storage device. We have no experience with them. Currently we're using tapes for backup and are looking to get away from them if we can.We a small to medium size manufacturing company. About 150 emlpoyees and are building a new store in...
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- Discussion threads 2007-09-11
- Cracking open the SMC NAS TigerStore storage device
- NAS storage is quickly becoming a common component of small business networks as well as the home office. Not too far behind will come the day where many home networks will have a NAS device for serving media files. It is with this prospect in mind that manufacturers like SMC...
- Tags: Network-attached storage (NAS), storage device, SMC, NAS, NAS Device, home office, storage, home network, small business, manufacturer, NAS storage, marketing, network
- Image galleries 2007-07-19
Additional Resources
- The NAS Gateway Effect: How the Re-Invention of NAS Is Changing Enterprise Storage
- IT managers looking for battle-hardened, enterprise-scalable storage for their most demanding applications have a surprising new alternative: NAS. While NAS itself is not new, the next-generation NAS solutions now on the market are new. NAS is into its next stage of evolution and now includes industrial-strength solutions for IT managers...
- Tags: NAS, Gateway Inc., Enterprise Storage, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2006-05-01
- Selecting the Right NAS Appliance for Your Workgroup LAN
- Data storage is a major concern for enterprises today. Network attached storage NAS is a new alternative to adding disk drives and PC servers to existing networks to increase storage space. This article discusses the benefits of NAS and what to look for when researching an NAS appliance for your...
- Tags: NAS, Data Storage, LAN, Network, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2001-07-01
- Sun StorEdge NAS Solutions: The Business Case for Network-Attached Storage (NAS)
- Network-Attached Storage NAS systems are designed to provide a storage and data consolidation platform for files that can be shared between heterogeneous clients and servers. This paper describes how Sun StorEdge NAS technology can provide efficiencies in storage utilization, management, and costs. It also provides an overview of the Sun...
- Tags: Business Case, Sun StorEdge, NAS, Sun Microsystems Inc., Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2006-03-01
- Massively Scalable NAS: Pre-Empting Tomorrow's Data Overload With Today's Technology
- NAS has always been simple...unless IT managers wanted to grow their NAS storage significantly. Then the simplicity evaporated. Now, with massive storage build-outs a necessity, a simply managed, highly scalable NAS environment is a must. For the first time, storage administrators are thinking in terms of managing petabytes of data....
- Tags: NAS, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2008-05-01
- Pricing Comparisons Between Windows-Based and Non-Windows-Based NAS Solutions
- In this paper, Windows-based and non-Windows-based NAS solutions were compared across several categories of typical configurations. For both Dedicated NAS a NAS device with its own storage resources and NAS Gateway (a NAS device utilizing the storage resources of a Storage Area Network [SAN]) solutions, systems from various vendors were...
- Tags: NAS, Microsoft Windows, Pricing Strategy, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2004-09-01
- Hitachi Data Systems: Attacking the NAS Market With Compelling Business Value
- With general availability in February 2006 of two types of NAS solutions, Hitachi Data Systems has signaled its intent to make an aggressive move into the NAS market space and compete in the longterm. The first is the introduction of a new product family of Hitachi TagmaStore Workgroup Modular Storage...
- Tags: NAS, Solution, Hitachi Ltd., Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-07-20
- Best Practices for Securing Network-Attached Storage
- Quality network-attached storage NAS provides many compelling benefits, such as increased performance, heterogeneous data access, data redundancy, ease of storage management, and realtime backup recovery. NAS has been steadily growing in popularity because it also separates data from the application server. However, the implementation of a NAS system brings about...
- Tags: NAS, Best Practice, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2004-04-01
- Improving Scalability, Manageability, and Performance for Network-Attached Storage (NAS) Solutions
- No one disputes the theoretical advantages of Network-Attached Storage NAS compared to direct-attached storage. The inefficiencies involved with multiple, separate data storage platforms can be greatly improved with an alternative NAS solution. Scalability, availability, and performance can also be enhanced with the currently available NAS platforms. However, many NAS solutions...
- Tags: NAS, Performance, Scalability, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-09-01
- NAS or iSCSI?: Selecting a Storage System
- This white paper's aim is to help system administrators decide between the two storage technologies NAS and iSCSI. Both technologies were developed to help cover the exponentially increasing need for storage capacity by means of external, scalable storage devices that can be networked if necessary. In any company, the use...
- Tags: NAS, Storage System, Storage, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Hardware
- White papers 2006-07-25
- SAN and NAS
- SAN and NAS are two ways to re-organize a system into a separately managed storage farm and server farm. In theory, separation of the storage and the server is like the tried-and-true “divide and conquer” military strategy that historically enjoyed great success. The end result should be a reduction of...
- Tags: NAS, SAN, FalconStor, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Hardware
- White papers
- ESG Report: Next Generation NAS
- Once considered a workgroup-level solution, Network Attached Storage NAS is now moving into large-scale enterprise applications that benefit from its inherent simplicity. To accommodate the requirements of these larger deployments, "next generation NAS" systems are coming to market with greater scalability and powerful new management features. This paper reviews the...
- Tags: NAS, Network, ONStor, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2006-08-01
- Performance Analysis of IOP Processor (XScale) for SAN/NAS Application
- Over the past several years, applications such as data warehousing, e-commerce and online multimedia have placed enormous demands on computing infrastructures, not only from a network capacity perspective, but also increasingly from a storage capacity perspective. Effectively managing vast amounts of storage has created the need for a robust, scalable...
- Tags: NAS, Performance, Intel XScale, SAN, Storage, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Hardware
- White papers 2006-08-04
- NAS Helps Customers Address File Storage Growth
- This white paper examines how many organizations are currently addressing storage and management needs to support the growing amount of file-level activity pervasive n most enterprise organizations. The paper then identifies pain points associated with the current solutions, takes a closer look at Network-Attached Storage NAS, and focuses on Sun...
- Tags: NAS, International Data Group, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2006-02-01
- NAS Virtualization Solution Evaluation Criteria
- NAS virtualization provides the capability to effectively manage the heterogeneous NAS and file server environment by providing a layer of abstraction between the NAS devices, file servers, and the clients that access them. It provides a single logical view of the heterogeneous NAS environment spread across different file systems on...
- Tags: NAS, Project Performance, NAS Virtualization, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-10-01
- Microsoft does NAS with Windows Storage Server 2003
- It all sounds so wonderful. Sign me right up. I would like to hear about network and I/O bandwidth supported by the platform. I am sure these are just configuration issues but how many private channels DATA can it support on the network and not get confused. ...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Storage Server, Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003, NAS, solarcarnut
- Discussion threads 2004-12-15
- NAS Virtualization
- NAS virtualization is a software-based solution that, in its broadest definition, lets one manage a heterogeneous environment including stand alone and clustered servers, workstations and PCs as one storage pool that can be managed, monitored and administered from any console. When one device reaches its limit, the NAS storage virtualization...
- Tags: Storage Virtualization, NAS, NAS Virtualization, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Virtualization, RAID, Hardware
- White papers 2006-01-01
- Windows Storage Server for NAS
- I recently acquired a Promise SX8000 raid array with 8 200GB ATA drives. I am attempting to create a NAS using a pentium 3 server with an Ultra160 HBA, and have a couple of questions.I want to use Windows Storage Server 2003 with the Storage Appliance Kit as an...
- Tags: gtingle@..., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Storage Server, NAS, server, storage server, windows, Windows Storage
- Q&A 2005-05-06
- TR Article
- There is a TR article on NAS and Windows 2003 Storage Server, which is how you will be able to get that to work:http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-22-5486024.htmlAny solutions for shared storage?Hello,I currently have a Windows 2003 server and a NAS running Win2k SBS. Of course, in a workgroup environmentMy clients need to authenticate...
- Tags: NAS, TR Article, windows, storage, windows server, workgroup, sbs, davide.picone@..., hardware, server
- Discussion threads 2006-03-30
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