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NAS

ALSO CALLED: Storage Network and Network Attached Storage
DEFINITION: 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 storage access and its management from the department server,  … 
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Archiving Chapter 2: CAS Platforms
sponsored by Plasmon
BOOK:   Posted: 05 May 2008 | Published: 17 Mar 2008
SUMMARY: 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.

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Business Velocity on a New Scale Resource Center
sponsored by BlueArc Corp.
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 30 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2008
SUMMARY: 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.

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Using the F5 Acopia ARX for Automated Storage Tiering
sponsored by F5 Networks
PRODUCT LITERATURE:   Posted: 28 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
SUMMARY: 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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TOPICS:  Data Storage | ILM | NAS

EMC File Virtualization Solutions
sponsored by EMC Corporation
SOFTWARE LISTING:   Posted: 28 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2008
SUMMARY: EMC File Virtualization Solutions comprise both technology assessment and design services to help your IT organization optimize its network-attached storage investments. Simplify management and optimize the efficiency of network-attached storage.

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HP Solutions for Network-Attached Storage, Resource Consolidation, and Disaster Recovery
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 28 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2008
SUMMARY: HP's next generation of enterprise Scalable NAS is uniquely suited to managing mission-critical applications such as Oracle as well as to consolidating Windows file servers.

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Lesson One: Building a SAN
sponsored by SearchStorage.com
PODCAST:   Posted: 25 Apr 2008 | Premiered: 25 Apr 2008, 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT)
SUMMARY: In this first lesson of Advanced SAN School, Stephen Foskett, Director of Data Practice for Contoural discusses the different types of storage arrays, switches, and software that make up a storage network.

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City County Credit Union Achieves Key DR Initiative with EVault Protect
sponsored by EVault, Inc.
CASE STUDY:   Posted: 24 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
SUMMARY: Bourdon and her team evaluated the merits of EVault Protect online backup and recovery services against that of a few other online backup providers.

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Presentation Transcript: SANs and Virtualization Can't Have One without the Other?
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 23 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2008
SUMMARY: This document is based on an HP/TechTarget webcast entitled "SANs and Virtualization: Can't Have One Without the Other?"

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NAS DEFINITION (continued): …  both application programming and files can be served faster because they are not competing for the same processor resources. The network-attached storage device is attached to a local area network (typically, an Ethernet network) and assigned an IP address. File requests are mapped by the main server to the NAS file server.

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