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NAS hardware and appliances are an important alternative to SANs, often geared more toward medium to small organizations. Find the latest news and related information on this topic page.
IN THIS TOPIC:  NEWS (61) , EXPERT TECHNICAL ADVICE (38) , REFERENCE & LEARNING (10) , WHITE PAPERS , WEBCASTS (1) , DEFINITIONS (4) , MAGAZINE CONTENT (35)

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NAS Upgrades
ALL-IN-ONE BUYING GUIDES - This guide provides readers with purchasing insights into NAS appliances, management software, and gateways, and highlights the specifications of key vendors in each chapter.
NAS appliance specifications
BUYING GUIDE - The product snapshots in this chapter highlight key specifications for a cross section of major NAS appliances.
Network Attached Storage
ALL-IN-ONE RESEARCH GUIDES - This guide to network attached storagewill provide you with information on NAS protocols, hardware and features, as well as information on NAS management and a buying guide.

  NEWS: 1 - 3 of 61
HP previews Web 2.0 storage system
SearchStorage.com | 06 May 2008
ARTICLE - HP's StorageWorks 9100 Extreme Data Storage System, which combines HP blade servers, clustering software and big chunks of JBOD storage, may be HP's answer to EMC's upcoming Hulk.
Supercomputing lab boots Ibrix SAN for BlueArc Titan NAS heads
SearchStorage.com | 15 Apr 2008
ARTICLE - The Fulton Supercomputing Lab at Brigham Young University said it brought in BlueArc Titan NAS heads when an Ibrix SAN file system on an HDS array wasn't working out.
Isilon reveals turnaround plan
SearchStorage.com | 04 Apr 2008
ARTICLE - Clustered storage vendor vows to continue to spend on product development, sales and marketing, despite losing nearly $27 million in the first year as public company.
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  EXPERT TECHNICAL ADVICE: 1 - 3 of 38
What you need to know before implementing NAS clusters
06 May 2008
TIP - Before a storage manager can deploy a clustered NAS solution, they need to know what questions to ask.
Clustered NAS gaining in popularity
Submitted By: SearchStorage.com | 04 Mar 2008
TIP - Mainstream commercial shops are adopting clustered NAS servers, attracted by the fact that clustered storage is now leveraging open standards and established technologies.
Don't let NAS consolidation impair performance
Submitted By: Stephen J. Bigelow | 02 Jan 2008
TIP - Learn how to avoid some common NAS upgrade mistakes.
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  REFERENCE & LEARNING: 1 - 3 of 10
Web 2.0 and other digital-rich industries drive clustered NAS adoption
SearchStorage.com | 25 Jan 2008
SPECIAL REPORT - Digital-rich industries are demanding high-performance NAS clustering, pushing file-based storage from 39% market share in 2006 to 76% in 2011, according to analysts.
High-performance NAS Special Report
25 Jan 2008
SPECIAL REPORTS - A new generation of high-performance NAS systems promises to overcome past limitations, bringing SAN-type features and capabilities to file-based storage.
High-performance NAS speeds file-based storage
Stephen J. Bigelow | 09 Jan 2008
HIGH-PERFORMANCE NAS EXPLAINED - A new generation of high-performance NAS systems promises to overcome past limitations, bringing SAN-type features and capabilities to file-based storage.
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  WHITE PAPERS
Archiving Chapter 2: CAS Platforms
Published by: Plasmon | 05 May 2008
BOOK - Content-addressed storage (CAS) is a specialized type of archive that provides the inexpensive and high-capacity storage needed to retain data that, although accessed infrequently, still has long-term relevance to the enterprise.
Business Velocity on a New Scale Resource Center
Published by: BlueArc Corp. | 30 Apr 2008
WHITE PAPER - Customers in all markets are seeing demand for new levels of storage performance, flexibility, and scalability to cope with today's data intensive environments. This Resource Center highlights technologies that can help you achieve this.
Using the F5 Acopia ARX for Automated Storage Tiering
Published by: F5 Networks | 28 Apr 2008
PRODUCT LITERATURE - Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) holds tremendous promise for the enterprise, yet its adoption has been slowed by factors such as proprietary vendor approaches, complexity and lack of internal coordination amongst multiple business units...
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  WEBCASTS: 1 - 1 of 1
Podcast: Clustered NAS emerges to address high-performace needs - Expert Podcast

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PREMIERED:   25 JAN 2008, 12:00 EST (17:00, GMT)
SUMMARY:   Robin Harris, senior analyst with the Data Mobility Group, and Andrew Burton, features editor of SearchStorage.com discuss clustered NAS in this Q&A.
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  DEFINITIONS: 1 - 3 of 4
network-attached storage
30 Apr 2003
WORD - 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 ...
unified storage
20 Dec 2006
WORD - 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 ...
direct-attached storage
19 Jul 2005
WORD - 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. The main alternatives to direct-attached storage ...
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  MAGAZINE CONTENT (free subscription required): 1 - 3 of 35
Survey: Fibre Channel rules planned purchases
Storage Magazine | 12 Apr 2008
TOOLS, TRENDS & ANALYSIS -
Arrays score with both file and block storage
Storage Magazine | 13 Mar 2008
FEATURES - Multiprotocol arrays that support block- and file-based storage through a single controller give users the best of both worlds: NAS for file-based information, and Fibre Channel or ISCSI block-based storage for databases and ...
Ask the Expert: Concurrent write access
Storage Magazine | 13 Feb 2008
TOOLS, TRENDS & ANALYSIS - How can we have concurrent write access to our EMC SAN without corruption?
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