Primary Storage Deduplication and NAS

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Week in review: Hitachi's unified storage system; will EMC buy XtremIO?

News -In our week in review podcast, Executive Editor Ellen O’Brien talks about this week’s top storage news with Senior News Director Dave Raffo.
Using Nimble Storage, construction firm reconstructs storage set-up

News -Two Nimble Storage arrays replace hodgepodge of systems from EMC, NetApp, Dell and Buffalo for primary storage and backup at construction firm Graniterock.
Week in review podcast: Dell’s backup dedupe appliance; more news

News -Listen to the top news of the week from the Storage Media Group: Dell’s launch of its first backup dedupe appliance, OCZ's acquisition of Sanrad and more headlines.

Adding a NAS device to your data storage environment

Tip -Determine whether or not you need a NAS device for your SMB environment by asking yourself these six questions.
VMworld 2010: Isilon ships clustered NAS with iSCSI

News -Isilon adds iSCSI for block storage to go with legacy file-based clustered NAS architecture; will it need Fibre Channel to be a mainstream storage array player?
Network-attached storage (NAS) quiz

Quiz -Network storage is fairly common these days, but how much about network-attached storage (NAS) do you really know? Take our quiz and test your NAS knowledge.

Clustered network-attached storage (clustered NAS)

Definition -A clustered NAS system is a distributed file system that runs concurrently on multiple NAS nodes.
SGI adopts hybrid storage for clustered NAS

News -SGI NAS uses hybrid storage with DRAM, solid-state drives and hard drives, ZFS, and SGI caching and management software in scale-out clusters.
Firms pleased with Red Hat, Gluster as storage investment increases

News -Pleased with the Red Hat, Gluster deal, IT shops looking for software-based storage praise their new products.

SGI adopts hybrid storage for clustered NAS

News -SGI NAS uses hybrid storage with DRAM, solid-state drives and hard drives, ZFS, and SGI caching and management software in scale-out clusters.
Companies still rely on good ol’ NAS

Magazine -Traditional network-attached storage (NAS) is still the go-to for 81% of respondents in our new survey. And they want more: 51% will add an average of 10 new NAS boxes in 2012.
Firms pleased with Red Hat, Gluster as storage investment increases

News -Pleased with the Red Hat, Gluster deal, IT shops looking for software-based storage praise their new products.

Using NAS for virtual machines

Magazine -Common wisdom says you need block storage for virtual servers; but with most hypervisors supporting the NFS protocol, NAS may work just as well.
F5 Networks incorporates ARX file virtualization into cloud storage

News -F5 Networks adds file virtualization software to move file, object storage to cloud; launches virtual appliance and open file services API for ARX platform.
Virtualizing NAS

Magazine -Companies of all sizes are being inundated with unstructured data that's straining the limits of traditional file storage. File virtualization can pool those strained resources and provide for future growth.