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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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Storage Magazine - May 2008
sponsored by Storage Magazine
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 15 May 2008 | Published: 01 May 2008
SUMMARY: Whether you're looking for the latest storage news, trends or technologies, Storagemagazine has got it all. The May 2008 issue of Storage explores solutions for disaster recovery testing, tips for creating an eDiscovery toolkit and mu...

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Making the Move to Network Attached Storage
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 12 May 2008 | Published: 23 Apr 2008
SUMMARY: NAS technologies can help organizations deal with the growing demands and complexities of storage today. Read this eGuide from SearchStorage.com to learn about the basic concepts of NAS, how to plan for a NAS in your business and much more.

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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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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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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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Taneja Group report: Scale-out NAS Hits the Big Time
sponsored by IBRIX
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 17 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2008
SUMMARY: Read why Scale-out NAS is the only approach that can handle the massive amounts of unstructured data businesses need to store and access in order to stay competitive and see how one business was able to reduce their cost per gigabyte by 10 times.

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IT Briefing - Get Scalable NAS with Web 2.0
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 16 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2008
SUMMARY: With HP Scalable NAS, you get an open and scalable architecture that solves real-world problems not addressed by other types of solutions in this space.

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Pillar Data's Application Aware Storage
sponsored by Pillar Data Systems
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 15 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Feb 2008
SUMMARY: Pillar Data Systems has spent a great deal of time and money designing a storage architecture that can mesh with the specific needs of varying applications-and is now set to unveil the first proof points.

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IT Briefing - The Benefits for Next Gen NAS
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 15 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2008
SUMMARY: This IT Briefing discusses traditional NAS technologies and explains how new, next-generation NAS solutions are making an impact on storage today. Read this IT Briefing to learn more about the future of NAS technologies and what they will mean for you.

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ESG Plasmon Archive File Manger Brief
sponsored by Plasmon
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 14 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2008
SUMMARY: Plasmon offers its Archive File Manager to facilitate the movement of static, or persistent, data off primary storage systems-in particular.

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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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