NAS Software Reports

EGUIDE: In the guide we look at the fundamentals of NAS and the use cases it best suits, the range of file access storage products available including in the cloud and in hybrid operation between cloud and datacentre. We also examine the question of NAS backup, looking at the challenges that have accompanied it and the solutions available.

Posted: 19 Apr 2021 | Published: 19 Apr 2021

EGUIDE: In this e-guide we look at the key decision points when it comes to choosing SAN (or NAS) vs software-defined storage and hyper-converged. We also look at the fundamentals of block access storage vs file and object and also look at how these services are provided in the big three cloud providers' universes.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 24 Aug 2020

EGUIDE: In this e-guide we give an overview to buying hyper-converged in which we dig into its benefits, such as ease of deployment, resource efficiency, low Opex costs and reduced use of datacentre space. But we also look at the potential pitfalls that include the difficulties of troubleshooting in a tightly-layered environment.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 12 May 2020

EGUIDE: Linear Tape File System (LTFS) offers the chance to build nearline storage with the cost profile of tape and the access times of NAS. This guide walks you through LTFS and tape NAS.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 16 Jan 2019

EGUIDE: NAS file access storage has progressed to meet the challenges of the cloud era. This e-guide provides key insights into NAS as we know it in the era of cloud and big, unstructured data sets.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 11 Jan 2019

EGUIDE: This guide offers a collection of our most popular articles on storage-related issues from the first few months of 2016.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 18 Apr 2016

WHITE PAPER: Though network-attached storage (NAS) offers a number of benefits, it also presents some challenges. Ashish Nadkarni, Principal Consultant with GlassHouse Technologies Inc., discusses the pros and cons of using NAS in an SMB environment and offers some best practices.

Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jun 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: FalconStor Software provides solutions that can dramatically improve backup speeds while working with your current backup technology and operations. Management can be streamlined even while performance improves.

Posted: 27 May 2009 | Published: 14 May 2009

DATA SHEET: To help companies reduce the costs of storing and managing inactive data, Iron Mountain has created an enterprise-class cloud-based storage archive service, the Virtual File Store (VFS). The VFS service is part of Iron Mountain's Storage-as-a-Service portfolio, which includes email management/archiving, eDiscovery, and data backup/recovery.

Posted: 16 Mar 2009 | Published: 16 Mar 2009

WEBCAST: In their second comparative challenge, The HP StorageWorks EVA asked three teams of high school students who had never configured a storage array to run timed tests on EVA, NetApp and EMC to see which one is easiest to use. EVA was the clear winner

Posted: 16 Mar 2009 | Premiered: Mar 16, 2009

WHITE PAPER: The widening disparity between CPU performance and that of storage subsystems has spawned numerous solutions that do not fix the problem. This white paper exposes this fundamental flaw and introduces the means available today to substantively reduce power consumption while improving performance: Fusion-io's flash memory-based storage technology.

Posted: 16 Feb 2009 | Published: 16 Feb 2009

DATA SHEET: Designed around a revolutionary silicon-based storage architecture known as ioMemory, the ioDrive is the world's most advanced NAND clustering technology with performance comparable to DRAM and storage capacity on par with today's hard disks, giving you the power to improve both memory capacity and storage performance by up to one thousand times.

Posted: 16 Feb 2009 | Published: 16 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: The accelerated pace of doing business in today's world puts organizations under tremendous pressure. They need to be fleet and flexible, able to rapidly respond to opportunities, make decisions, and deploy resources. Critical to this is the way information is managed and stored.

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 | Published: 12 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: In a relatively short span of time, Network Attached Storage [NAS] has become a popular, widely implemented technology given its many attractive features and benefits. This whitepaper details four techniques for managing network attached storage, including file management simplification and data access without server intervention.

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 | Published: 12 Feb 2009

WEBCAST: In this webcast you will learn about this powerful solution, hear about specific deployments and the resulting benefits.

Posted: 04 Aug 2008 | Premiered: Aug 1, 2008