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NAS management demands are cumulative, imposing a serious level of management overhead for storage managers and IT staff. Find all the latest information about how to manage NAS on this topic page.
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Introduction to network attached storage (NAS)
ARTICLE - Network attached storage (NAS) offers accessibility and performance that falls between server storage and SAN storage.
NAS survey: Top NAS hardware on the market
TIP - Our survey reveals the top NAS hardware products, according to storage professionals at enterprise organizations.
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.

  NEWS: 1 - 3 of 70
Gear6 launches pared-down NAS caching appliance
SearchStorage.com | 17 Mar 2008
ARTICLE - Gear6's scaled-down version of its caching appliance is still expensive, but analysts say some shops could find it more cost effective than adding disk or clustered NAS nodes.
Storage networking equipment finalists 2007
SearchStorage.com and Storage magazine editors | 18 Jan 2008
FINALISTS 2007 STORAGE PRODUCTS OF THE YEAR - Find out who the finalists are in the storage networking equipment category of the 2007 Products of the Year competition conducted by SearchStorage.com and Storage magazine.
Tutorial on network-attached storage
searchStorage.com | 03 Jan 2008
ARTICLE - The main advantage of NAS devices is that network storage is no longer limited by the number of disks that a server can hold.
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  EXPERT TECHNICAL ADVICE: 1 - 3 of 172
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.
How to create an RFP for NAS
23 Apr 2008
TIP - Creating an RFP will help you boil your NAS vendor choices down to a manageable few. And your NAS RFP should include one technology: thin provisioning.
Learn all about NAS
Submitted By: Tory Skyers | 23 Apr 2008
DATA STORAGE HANDBOOK - Storage can be added to a LAN via dedicated disk-based storage units called NAS devices. In this handbook you'll learn how to connect NAS systems and how to deploy them.
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  REFERENCE & LEARNING: 1 - 3 of 23
How to purchase NAS products for storage consolidation
Stephen J. Bigelow, Features Writer | 18 Feb 2008
BUYING GUIDE - NAS is so easy to install and manage that NAS sprawl is a common problem. Learn how to purchase NAS appliances with an eye toward NAS storage consolidation.
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.
Product roundup: High-performance NAS
Beth Pariseau, News Writer | 11 Jan 2008
SPECIAL REPORT - The most popular method for squeezing performance and scalability out of NAS systems today is the clustered approach.
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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 7
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 ...
file virtualization
25 Jun 2007
WORD - File virtualization is the creation of an abstraction layer between file servers and the clients that access those file servers. Once deployed, the file virtualization layer manages files and file systems across servers, ...
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 ...
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  MAGAZINE CONTENT (free subscription required): 1 - 3 of 54
Stamp out NAS threats
Storage Magazine | 10 Sep 2007
FEATURES - NAS is open to many of the exploits (viruses, worms, unauthorized access, data tampering, snooping and IP spoofing) that have plagued Windows-based systems. But even though NAS runs on ubiquitous Ethernet and TCP/IP transport ...
Storage Firsts
Storage Magazine | 12 Aug 2007
TOOLS, TRENDS & ANALYSIS -
Rein in NAS with file virtualization
Storage Magazine | 10 Mar 2007
FEATURES - NAS filers have sprung up largely unchecked in many companies, creating major management headaches and forcing companies to reevaluate how they handle this critical piece of storage infrastructure. File virtualization ...
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