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NAS

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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, both application programming and files can be served faster because they are not competing for the same  … 
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Recent Vendor Reports on NAS
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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Podcast: Should IT Care About Records? Essential Elements of a Records Retention Program
sponsored by CA
PODCAST:   Posted: 09 May 2008 | Premiered: 09 May 2008
SUMMARY: In this podcast learn strategies for closing this gap and creating structured records management policies, establishing which documents users need to save, for how long and where in the system, enterprise-wide.

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Should IT Care About Records? Essential Elements of a Records Retention Program
sponsored by CA
WEBCAST:   Posted: 09 May 2008 | When: Available On Demand
SUMMARY: In this webcast learn strategies for closing this gap and creating structured records management policies, establishing which documents users need to save, for how long and where in the system, enterprise-wide.

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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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NAS DEFINITION (continued): …  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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Network-attached storage consists of hard disk storage, … 
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