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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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NAS clustering: What it is and how it's being used
Find out about the different meanings of the term NAS clustering, how it's being used for scalability, its limitations and how it differs from file virtualization. FAQ
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NFS alternative meets Los Alamos National Laboratory's high-performance computing needs
Los Alamos National Laboratory uses IBM's GPFS, Lustre, and Panasas' ActiveStor and DirectFlow as alternative to NFS while testing the parallel NFS (pNFS) specification for high-performance computing needs. Case Study
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Thin provisioning brings utilization and capacity benefits to data storage, but with a caveat
Thin provisioning can deliver capacity and utilization benefits to enterprise data storage environments, but it's been hobbled by concerns over capacity allocation overload and sluggish support from major vendors. Tutorial
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Data management issues in UK organizations
Read our case studies and find out how your peers are coping with server virtualisation projects, email archiving, storage-area network (SAN) implementations and data migration. Special Report
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Podcast: How file virtualization can benefit your storage infrastructure
Taneja Group's Jeff Boles discusses file virtualization technologies, how file virtualization affects replication or migration, and which products enable file virtualization. FAQ
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NAS virtualization explained
NAS virtualization can refer to the ability to virtualise multiple NAS heads into a single virtualised file system or the ability to spawn multiple virtual file servers within a physical file server. Either way, performing NAS virtualisation via a vi... NAS virtualization explai
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What is file virtualization and how does it differ from block or storage virtualization or from glob
There's a lot of confusion around file virtualization, and virtualization in general, because... FAQ