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This article is part of the January 2013 issue of Should you believe vendors’ jaw-dropping solid-state performance specs?
NAS storage systems are the storage workhorses of most data centers; EMC's and Hitachi Data Systems' NAS entries lead a strong field in our satisfaction survey. The Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com Quality Awards for network-attached storage (NAS) have always been a wide open affair. The enterprise group has had six different winners in seven years, and after NetApp Inc. dominated early with three straight wins, there have been four different midrange NAS winners. In the latest installment of the user satisfaction survey, EMC Corp. regained the top spot among the enterprise group after being nudged out of the top NAS storage systems spot by Oracle Corp. last year, and Hitachi Data Systems Corp. prevailed among the midrange products, its first win since topping the enterprise field in the very first NAS Quality Awards survey. Overall rankings Overall ratings: Enterprise NAS systems Enterprise: EMC had the highest scores in two of the rating categories and tied for first in another on its way to a winning overall score of 6.84. NetApp captured two categories... Access >>>
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The truth about SSD performance benchmarks
by Leah Schoeb
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NAS storage systems satisfaction survey: EMC, Hitachi earn top marks
by Rich Castagna
NAS storage systems are the storage workhorses of most data centers; EMC's and Hitachi Data Systems' NAS entries lead a strong field in our satisfaction survey.
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The truth about SSD performance benchmarks
by Leah Schoeb
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Tiered data storage: State of the art
by Phil Goodwin
Tiered data storage is now a storage best practice, accelerated by the use of solid-state storage. We survey how major vendors leverage solid-state to implement storage tiering.
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Small but satisfied group of converged systems users
by Rich Castagna
Convenience, preconfiguration and cost savings are among the reasons why our survey respondents say they're using converged systems.
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Tiered data storage: State of the art
by Phil Goodwin
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Five developments we need in the data storage market in 2013
by Rich Castagna
Rich Castagna offers a list of five developments we all want to see in the data storage market in 2013 but probably won't. Why? Because vendors continue to drag their heels.
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'New' disaster recovery planning process looks a lot like the 'old' DR
by Jon William Toigo
The Mayans blew it -- we're still here -- but storms like Sandy show that there's no replacement for a sound disaster recovery planning process.
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Online file sharing and collaboration comes of age just in time
by Terri McClure
ESG reviewed online file-sharing and collaboration apps to see if the market is finally maturing to a point where SMBs and enterprises alike can find a worthwhile IT investment.
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Taking QoS implementation to a new level
by Arun Taneja
An effective QoS implementation helps tunes data storage to meet the specific needs of applications. New tools that offer more automation are emerging to help.
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Five developments we need in the data storage market in 2013
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