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Midrange NAS arrays product specifications
Listed here are product specifications for over 25 midrange NAS array products. Find out which storage vendors are offering midrange NAS arrays and what those midrange arrays offer, such as capacity, number of drives, connectivity and transfer rate. Buying Guide
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NAS best practices: Avoid file management nightmares by planning
The good news is that you can get a NAS box up and running in 20 minutes. The bad news is that deploying your second, third and fourth NAS system creates a file management nightmare. Buying Guide
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NAS arrays shouldering more mission-critical enterprise apps
NAS arrays are moving beyond traditional file serving to running production databases, mission-critical enterprise applications and VMware installations. Buying Guide
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Network attached storage quiz
So you're trying to master the intricacies of network attached storage and you want to know what's up with NFS, CIFS and gateways. Take our quiz on network attached storage and see how much of a NAS master you are. Quiz
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Web 2.0 and other digital-rich industries drive clustered NAS adoption
Digital-rich industries, such as Web 2.0, are demanding high-performance NAS clustering, pushing file-based storage from 39% market share in 2006 to 76% in 2011, according to analysts. Special Report
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High-performance NAS speeds file-based storage
Traditionally, NAS systems have had limitations in throughput, connectivity, reliability and scalability. As a result, mission-critical storage tasks still required a SAN. Today, a new generation of high-performance NAS systems promises to overcome p... High-Performance NAS Expl
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NAS appliance specifications
NAS appliances are noted for their convenience, offering dedicated internal storage that is relatively straightforward to identify and manage. The biggest issue for NAS appliances is avoiding network bottlenecks and supporting expansion without havin... Buying Guide
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Learning Guide: NAS
If you want to learn more about NAS, this is the place. Whether you're setting up your first NAS box or you're an expert who wants to stay up to date on what's new in the NAS world, you'll find something of interest here. Check out our resources on N... Learning Guide
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UCLA scientists tame file data storage growth with scale-out NAS, pNFS
To deal with its file data storage needs, UCLA's Institute for Digital Research and Education bought BlueArc Titans to boost performance and Panasas ActiveStor to tackle bandwidth. News | 23 Jan 2012
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Nexsan spins its own NAS array, the E5000 platform
Nexsan Corp. comes up with its own NAS array, the E5000, with support for tiering software and solid-state caching to boost performance. News | 09 Aug 2011
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Oracle storage strategy: Make our apps run better
Oracle executives say their storage strategy is to sell storage systems that run their databases and other apps faster and more efficiently. News | 01 Jul 2011
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HP upgrades EVA midrange SAN array, launches virtualization bundles
HP launches long-awaited EVA midrange SAN array upgrade; adds integrated storage-server-networking stacks to take on EMC Vblock; rolls out new Windows-based NAS. News | 06 Jun 2011
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Iomega’s PX Series SMB NAS devices support SSDs, 3 TB drives
Iomega released its PX Series of desktop and rackmount SMB NAS devices with SSD support, swappable drives, trusted domains, and server virtualization platform certification. News | 04 May 2011
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Avere adds global namespace to NAS accelerator appliances
Global namespace in the Avere Operating System 2.0 for its FXT Series lets customers facilitate end-to-end management of unstructured data across NAS filers Article | 15 Mar 2011
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Alacritech packages SSD, offload into NAS acceleration device
Alacritech expands TCP/IP offload engine (TOE) technology to speed NFS transactions, accelerate NAS performance with solid-state drive (SSD)-based ANX 1500 caching appliance. Article | 11 Jan 2011
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NetGear adds ReadyNAS Pro desktop SMB storage appliances
NetGear launches desktop appliances for remote office as part of its ReadyNAS SMB storage platform, along with replication software and cloud backup for data protection. Article | 05 Nov 2010
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SquareTwo turns to Hitachi Data Systems SAN, NAS for quick access, disaster recovery
Asset and recovery firm SquareTwo financial dumped Sun storage for Hitachi Data Systems SAN array and NAS head to support rapid growth plans while improving access times and disaster recovery. Article | 22 Sep 2010
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Genome researchers grapple with data management
Personal Genome Project researchers say data storage growth in gene sequencing technology is being reined in, but others claim data management is the next issue. Article | 28 Apr 2010
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Scale-out network-attached storage: Options in today’s market
Scale-out NAS systems are gaining interest due to rapid growth of file data and “big data” analytics. Here’s a look at the scale-out NAS vendors. Tip
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Scale-out network-attached storage: What you need to know
Scale-out NAS is replacing traditional network-attached storage. In this guide, you’ll find out how to stay ahead of this emerging technology trend. Tip
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Ancestry.com adopts Isilon, BlueArc scale-out network-attached storage
With billions of records requiring PBs of capacity, Ancestry.com turns to scale-out network-attached storage that exceeds limits of traditional NAS. Tip
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Using NAS storage devices in a virtualized server environment
Are NAS storage devices a fit for a virtual server environment? We list factors in choosing these devices, and explain their impact on your storage systems. Tip
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Choosing a midrange network-attached storage (NAS) system
Midrange network-attached storage (NAS) appliances can be an affordable solution for SMBs in today's do-more-with-less economic climate. Learn how to choose the NAS system that best fits your storage environment. Tip
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What you need to know before implementing NAS clusters
Now that we've examined the reasons why clustered NAS is getting more popular with storage managers and dispelled the biggest myths about clustered NAS, you're almost ready to deploy a clustered NAS solution. But first you have to know what questions... Tip
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Top considerations when buying a NAS array
Purchasing a NAS platform for your organization requires careful consideration. This article outlines the most important things to consider before making a decision. Tip
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Can a NAS filer work for your small business?
NAS filers are a good option for a small business or department that's not worried about expandability and has fairly simple storage management needs. Tip
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Clustered NAS gaining in popularity
While clustered storage is often associated with high performance computing, the reality is that mainstream commercial environments are adopting clustered storage, particularly clustered NAS servers, at a rapid rate. These businesses are attracted by... Tip
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Don't let NAS consolidation impair performance
Learn how to avoid some common NAS upgrade mistakes. Tip
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Connecting a hard drive to NAS
Our NAS expert Randy Kerns answers this question, posed by one of our readers: "How would I take an ordinary hard drive and create a network attached storage (NAS) hard drive instead of buying an external hard drive?" Ask the Expert
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NICs in NAS systems
NAS expert Randy Kerns answers the question: "Is it typical, when using a NAS appliance, that a host/server would have 2xNICs installed?" Ask the Expert
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NAS vs. DAS
NAS expert Randy Kerns offers advice to a SearchStorage.com reader who is considering whether to use NAS or DAS. Ask the Expert
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NAS appliance vs. homegrown file server
NAS expert Randy Kerns outlines why he believes purchasing a vendor offering of a NAS product has advantages over rolling your own file server. Ask the Expert
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EMC Celerra: virtual file system vs. file system group?
A virtual file system allows you to consolidate multiple individual file systems within Celerra to a single namespace. File system groups are logical entities without the single namespace. Ask the Expert
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What is NAS gateway?
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NAS box data movers
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NAS benchmarks
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Hitachi Thunder 9585V vs. NetApp GF960?
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Windows NAS advice
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NAS Appliance
NAS appliances are commodity hardware that includes their own dedicated storage disks and RAID that can easily scale as more capacity is needed. Definition
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network-attached storage (NAS)
Network-attached storage (NAS) is hard disk storage that is set up with its own network address rather than being attached to the department computer that is serving applications to a network's workstation users. By removing storage access and its ma... Word
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unified storage (network unified storage or NUS)
Unified storage (sometimes termed network unified storage or NUS) is a storage system that makes it possible to run and manage files and applications from a single device. To this end, a unified storage system consolidates file-based and block-based ... Word
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direct-attached storage (DAS)
Direct-attached storage (DAS) is computer storage that is directly attached to one computer or server and is not, without special support, directly accessible to other ones. Word
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NAS accelerator
A NAS accelerator (network-attached storage accelerator) is a printed circuit card that offloads TCP/IP processing from a microprocessor. Word
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Network File System (NFS)
Switching fabric is the combination of hardware and software that moves data coming in to a network node out by the correct port (door) to the next node in the network. Word
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Scale-out network-attached storage: Options in today’s market
Scale-out NAS systems are gaining interest due to rapid growth of file data and “big data” analytics. Here’s a look at the scale-out NAS vendors. Tip
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Scale-out network-attached storage: What you need to know
Scale-out NAS is replacing traditional network-attached storage. In this guide, you’ll find out how to stay ahead of this emerging technology trend. Tip
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UCLA scientists tame file data storage growth with scale-out NAS, pNFS
To deal with its file data storage needs, UCLA's Institute for Digital Research and Education bought BlueArc Titans to boost performance and Panasas ActiveStor to tackle bandwidth. News
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Ancestry.com adopts Isilon, BlueArc scale-out network-attached storage
With billions of records requiring PBs of capacity, Ancestry.com turns to scale-out network-attached storage that exceeds limits of traditional NAS. Tip
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NAS Appliance
NAS appliances are commodity hardware that includes their own dedicated storage disks and RAID that can easily scale as more capacity is needed. Definition
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NAS technologies: Vendor landscape
An overview of NAS technologies to help organizations make the decision between scale-up and scale-out network-attached storage. Feature
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Scale-up vs. scale-out network-attached storage
An overview of use cases and products to help organizations make the decision between scale-up and scale-out network-attached storage. Tutorial
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NAS options: Pros and cons of scale-out and scale-up
When considering your NAS options, take a look at the pros and cons of traditional scale-up vs. scale-out systems for storing file data. Feature
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Nexsan spins its own NAS array, the E5000 platform
Nexsan Corp. comes up with its own NAS array, the E5000, with support for tiering software and solid-state caching to boost performance. News
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Oracle storage strategy: Make our apps run better
Oracle executives say their storage strategy is to sell storage systems that run their databases and other apps faster and more efficiently. News
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About NAS hardware
NAS appliances bring simplicity to file management and network storage. NAS appliances include their own dedicated disks for storage and RAID. NAS appliances can be upgraded with more or larger disks for additional storage space. It's easy to add NAS appliances to the storage environment, so easy that NAS sprawl may become a problem.