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F5: The last vendor standing in file virtualisation?
Since 2005 file virtualisation has gone from emerging technology to a field with one active vendor. What has caused the demise of file virtualisation and why does F5 persist with it? Feature
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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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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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Scale-out storage options boost capacity, I/O performance
Learn about scale-out storage options: why IT shops are implementing scale-out NAS and how scale-out NAS helps with primary storage. Tutorial
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Isilon scale-out NAS helps production company manage 250 TB
Isilon scale-out NAS helps NY-based creative production company meet the demanding data storage needs of media, entertainment and retail customers. Feature
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Scale-out NAS, object storage, cloud gateways replacing file storage
Scale-out NAS systems, object storage and cloud gateways are replacing file storage as IT companies face a plethora of unstructured data in their data storage environments. Feature
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Users say choosing the best SMB NAS system has gotten a little easier
Choosing an SMB NAS system has gotten a lot easier, thanks to a plethora of vendors offering full-featured products priced right for SMBs. Tutorial
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Clustered NAS vs traditional NAS solutions
Clustered NAS offers file visibility across petabytes of storage and is hugely scalable with the ability to increase throughput, IOPS or disk space by adding extra nodes. Feature
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Clustered NAS systems: Network-attached storage on steroids
Find out how clustered NAS systems compare with traditional NAS, the key clustered NAS vendors, how to choose the right product and how two IT shops implemented clustered NAS. Special Report
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SGI adopts hybrid storage for clustered NAS
SGI NAS uses hybrid storage with DRAM, solid-state drives and hard drives, ZFS, and SGI caching and management software in scale-out clusters. News | 11 Apr 2012
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Firms pleased with Red Hat, Gluster as storage investment increases
Pleased with the Red Hat, Gluster deal, IT shops looking for software-based storage praise their new products. News | 02 Apr 2012
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Avere Systems gives NAS acceleration devices an edge
Avere Systems upgrades NAS acceleration software, adding more control over namespace and asynchronous replication for the cloud. News | 28 Mar 2012
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Nexsan launches unified storage architecture with flash cache
Nexsan releases the NST unified storage architecture supporting iSCSI and NAS, and using flash cache for a performance boost. News | 05 Mar 2012
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Iomega upgrades SMB NAS with server-class drives, management features
Iomega introduced its new line of PX SMB NAS devices with server-class SATA drives, cloneable device configuration, and power management features. News | 16 Feb 2012
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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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‘Puss in Boots’ expands DreamWorks’ NAS cluster
Making animated movies is storage-intensive work – DreamWorks has 6 PB of capacity, including 1 PB on scale-out NAS cluster for rendering. News | 07 Nov 2011
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Oracle speeds up ZFS Storage Appliance line, other data storage news
Oracle beefs up its Sun ZFS Storage Appliance line, Fusion-io upgrades ioDrive flash PCIe cards, Actifio aims to virtualize storage management and other data storage news. News | 07 Oct 2011
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Quantum StorNext appliance line grows
The Quantum StorNext appliance family is adding more products, and targeting Big Data sets with new, pre-configured gateways and data storage subsystems for primary disk. News | 12 Sep 2011
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Avere FXT clustered NAS appliances render aid to visual effects firm
Visual effects firm Whiskytree turned to Avere FXT clustered NAS appliances to solve scaling limitations of its Apple Xsan storage system. News | 03 Aug 2011
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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 in the market and their products. 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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Top five tips for choosing a network attached storage device
The editors of SearchSMBStorage.com have closely followed the network attached storage (NAS) device market. Here are our top five NAS device tips. Tip
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Is free storage software worth the risk?
Learn about the pros and cons of using free storage server software for your organization. Tip
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Clustered NAS: How to choose the right clustered NAS system
Finding the right clustered NAS (or scale-out NAS) system means knowing your storage needs. Learn the questions to ask when evaluating your requirements and the latest offerings. Tip
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File virtualization can contain file storage growth in NAS systems
Learn how file virtualization can alleviate rapid file storage growth in NAS systems. We discuss shared-path and split-path file virtualization products and their advantages and disadvantages. Tip
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Clustered NAS systems can ease NAS management
Find out about clustered NAS systems vendors and products. We also list the advantages and disadvantages of using clustered NAS systems to ease NAS management. Tip
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Top 10 UK data storage methods for data deduplication, disaster recovery and more
Our top 10 tips of 2009 cover direct-attached storage (DAS), network-attached storage (NAS), storage-area networks (SAN), disaster recovery, data deduplication and more. Tip
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How to determine a NAS system's scalability
This tip covers scalability limitations of a network-attached storage (NAS) system, including maxed managed file limits, IOPS and throughput limits, and capacity limits. It can help you avoid application outages that occur when storage reaches these ... Tip
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Clustered storage essentials: What to ask your vendor
Here are eight esstential questions to ask your clustered stoage vendor. . Tip
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Planning a NAS migration project
NAS migration requires careful planning around the needs of your organization. In this Ask the Expert, find out which approach to use for an effective migration. Answer
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What type of centralized data storage should I use for 1.5 TB of data across multiple locations?
Greg Schulz explains centralized data storage options for an SMB with 1.5 TB of data across several locations. Ask the Expert
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How do you defragment NAS?
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NAS vs. PC-based file server
Business continuity expert Pierre Dorion discusses NAS vs. a PC-based file server. Ask the Expert
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NAS security
NAS expert Randy Kerns answers a reader's question: How do I secure a network attached storage (NAS) box from physical attacks as well as network based attacks? I have found that disk encryption is useful where there is a physical insecurity like the... 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: How does a client access files?
NAS expert Randy Kerns offers advice to a reader who asked: "How does NAS appear to machines accessing files from it?" Ask the Expert
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NAS permissions
NAS expert Randy Kerns offers advice to a reader who asked: "How are permissions controlled on NAS?" Ask the Expert
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Creating NAS partitions
NAS expert Randy Kerns offers important advice about creating partitions in a NetApp NAS system. 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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Virtual machine storage and block vs file
Virtual machine storage requires greater performance, capacity and resiliency than with physical servers and requires a careful choice between block and file access. Podcast
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The changing face of scale-out network-attached storage
We explore the challenges associated with implementing scale-out network-attached storage, provide advice for firms considering scale-out NAS and discuss the cloud as a NAS tier. Podcast
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Unified storage architecture: Different approaches, scalability and capacity-saving tools
Unified storage offers block and file access in one box with the ease of management that implies, but vendors’ products can differ according to their storage heritage. FAQ
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NetApp cluster functionality vs competitors’ clustered file systems
Find out how clustered NAS differs from traditional NAS and how NetApp cluster capabilities compare with the clustered file systems of EMC Isilon, IBM and HP. FAQ
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Federated storage offers scalability and performance in large and growing environments
Federated storage offers scalability, performance and a single view of data across many arrays and is suited to providing storage for large and growing virtual server environments. FAQ
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Network-attached storage (NAS) basics for UK data storage managers
Learn the basics of network-attached storage (NAS), the differences between NAS and storage-area network (SAN) products, and get an overview of today's NAS market. Podcast
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Disk-based backup podcast with Curtis Preston
Companies are replacing tape with disk-based backup to achieve faster backups and restores. W. Curtis Preston, vice president of data protection at GlassHouse Technologies, explains how adding data deduplication makes disk-based backup an even more c... Podcasts
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SGI adopts hybrid storage for clustered NAS
SGI NAS uses hybrid storage with DRAM, solid-state drives and hard drives, ZFS, and SGI caching and management software in scale-out clusters. News
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F5: The last vendor standing in file virtualisation?
Since 2005 file virtualisation has gone from emerging technology to a field with one active vendor. What has caused the demise of file virtualisation and why does F5 persist with it? Feature
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Firms pleased with Red Hat, Gluster as storage investment increases
Pleased with the Red Hat, Gluster deal, IT shops looking for software-based storage praise their new products. News
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Avere Systems gives NAS acceleration devices an edge
Avere Systems upgrades NAS acceleration software, adding more control over namespace and asynchronous replication for the cloud. News
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Nexsan launches unified storage architecture with flash cache
Nexsan releases the NST unified storage architecture supporting iSCSI and NAS, and using flash cache for a performance boost. News
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Iomega upgrades SMB NAS with server-class drives, management features
Iomega introduced its new line of PX SMB NAS devices with server-class SATA drives, cloneable device configuration, and power management features. News
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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 in the market and their products. 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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Top five tips for choosing a network attached storage device
The editors of SearchSMBStorage.com have closely followed the network attached storage (NAS) device market. Here are our top five NAS device tips. Tip
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NAS management demands impose a high level of management overhead for storage managers. Find resources on how to manage NAS on this topic page.