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- FeatureAnalyzers bulk up for storage
- FeatureAuto provisioning still a tease
- FeatureiSCSI Products Flood Market
- FeatureBeyond basic RAID
- FeatureCisco Joins FC Switch Club
- FeatureVeritas raises the bar with NetBackup 4.5
- FeatureProtect Data at Rest
- FeatureWhere Does Midrange End and Enterprise Begin?
- FeatureEasing the Pain of NAS Backup Headaches
- FeatureHIPAA Prompts Hospitals to Reconsider Storage
- FeatureWhere ATA arrays can save you money
- FeatureSuperparamagnetic limit
- FeatureHigh-Availability Switches Still a Moving Target
- FeatureTame e-mail storage - before it eats you alive
- FeaturePay the right price for storage
- FeatureWhich new technologies are worth it?
- FeatureBook Review
- FeatureBehind the firewall
- FeatureLower your costs by implementing enterprise-class libraries
- FeatureIt's not all gloom and doom for the storage industry.
- FeatureSnapshot: Block-based storage
- FeatureThe good--and bad--of storage vendor independence
- FeatureWhat are they thinking?

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Snapshot: Block-based storage
How much of your data is block-based?
Published: 14 Oct 2002
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3. Would you buy a converged SAN/NAS device? | ![]() |
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The future bodes fairly well for the new generation of converged block and file storage devices, such as Network Appliance's recently announced product. To wit, a recent Storage magazine survey reveals that hardly anyone (<10%) has exclusively block or file-based data, while 47% already have both SAN and NAS storage. Furthermore, even with no shipping products on the market, 38% answered that yes, they would buy a converged device, compared to only 23% that responded with a categoric "no." But 39% of respondents remain unsure, waiting to be swayed by actual product demonstrations.
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