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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WHITE PAPER: Posted: 15 May 2008 | Published: 01 May 2008
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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...
WHITE PAPER: Posted: 12 May 2008 | Published: 23 Apr 2008
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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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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'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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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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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.
WHITE PAPER: Posted: 15 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Feb 2008
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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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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.
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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