NAS Reports

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper we explore Object Storage, compare it to traditional NAS, and demonstrate that an intelligent, policy based data management strategy is the best approach to determining when it is beneficial for organizations to use Object Storage, or continue to use NAS.

Posted: 01 May 2011 | Published: 27 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper we explore Object Storage, compare it to traditional NAS, and demonstrate that an intelligent, policy based data management strategy is the best approach to determining when it is beneficial for organizations to use Object Storage, or continue to use NAS.

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 | Published: 29 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This ESG Lab report presents the results of a mixed workload performance benchmark test designed to assess the real world performance capabilities of an IBM Storwize V7000 storage system and IBM x3850 X5 servers in a VMware-enabled virtual server environment. Download now to find out the results. 

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011

EGUIDE: The primary use of cloud storage today is for unstructured data, which is the fastest growing and most voluminous content, causing the most administrative pains. This SearchStorage.com e-guide talks about cloud computing and the next steps toward the wide adoption of this technology.

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 | Published: 15 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Learn how to Increase your opportunities and shorten your sales cycle by selling the EMC® VNXe™ series, a new unified storage offering for small and medium-size businesses. Continue reading this paper to learn the top five reasons to sell EMC’s new VNXe series unified storage.

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 | Published: 14 Mar 2011

EGUIDE: While server virtualization provides your customers with increased flexibility to respond to business needs, it also introduces some problems, especially in the storage arena. This guide is a quick and informative read that will explore new options of helping customers manage their unified and virtual servers projects.

Posted: 10 Mar 2011 | Published: 10 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: A growing trend in small businesses is to solve storage problems with a simpler, more elegant technology: network-attached storage (NAS). Continue reading to learn about NAS appliances such as Cisco® Small Business NSS 300 Series Smart Storage solution, as well as learn the reasons why it differs from other NAS storage method.

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 | Published: 21 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: If you've heard of network-attached storage (NAS), you know that this technology can centralize data storage for high availability and security. But now NAS does much more, for about the same price. Continue reading to learn more.

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 | Published: 21 Jan 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Read this transcript to learn how EMC Data Domain next-generation backup technology provides a scalable deduplication storage system with inline dedupe throughput and exceptional data availability for Oracle databases.

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 | Published: 06 Jan 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript, Steve Kenniston and Daniel Gill are going to talk about extraordinary storage efficiency with IBM Real-Time Compression.

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 | Published: 17 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses IBM's Real-time Compression—which enables organizations to optimize primary data stores so they can save new information, retain existing data for longer periods of time, consolidate existing systems, or benefit from some combination of the preceding.

Posted: 14 Dec 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2010

EDITORIAL RESOURCE GUIDE: In this month's cover story, Jacob Gsoedl explores how unstructured data became one of the top challenges in today’s organizations and highlights how file/NAS virtualization allows for future growth.

Posted: 02 Sep 2010 | Published: 02 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how Imperva SecureSphere File Security products deliver real-time file monitoring, auditing, security, and user rights management for files stored on file servers and network attached storage (NAS) devices.

Posted: 30 Aug 2010 | Published: 30 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: This document provides a detailed overview of using EMC Celerra with VMware vSphere 4. VMware vSphere is an infrastructure virtualization suite that provides virtualization, management, resource optimization, application availability, and operational automation capabilities in an integrated package.

Posted: 13 Jul 2010 | Published: 01 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: The Dell/EMC NS family of unified storage enables organizations to easily and cost-effectively consolidate both unstructured file-system data and structured application data into a single shared storage system - helping organizations control costs, streamline management, and enhance storage availability and performance.

Posted: 13 Jul 2010 | Published: 13 Jul 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Read this presentation transcript to find out what clustered NAS is and how it is different from traditional NAS. This interview will also outline some of the benefits and drawbacks of clustering NAS and identify typical use cases for the clustered NAS approach.

Posted: 09 Jun 2010 | Published: 09 Jun 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Improving your storage management and better leveraging your network-attached storage (NAS) data or block storage data is a challenge for many IT organizations. Read this transcript to learn best practices for improving storage management and how to better control NAS data storage systems via data classification, tiering techniques and more.

Posted: 19 May 2010 | Published: 10 May 2010

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Simplicity at Scale: In the same way that virtualisation has eliminated server sprawl, Isilon Scale-out NAS eliminates storage sprawl and provides a superior solution for virtualised environments. Read this solution brief to learn more.

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript outlines how to converge storage traffic onto a common, unified data center with 10 gigabit ethernet (10GbE). The benefits of this conversion include lower costs, easier deployment and greater flexibility and performance within the storage network. Download this transcript to learn more.

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 | Published: 01 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: The risks attached to not having a BC or DR plan are neither small nor cheap. Every good plan employs certain technologies and methodologies to limit the disruptiveness of an outage. CDW offers storage, power and networking specialists to assist with disaster recovery needs.

Posted: 27 Jan 2010 | Published: 27 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper illustrates the top–level benefits of online PC backup. Read this paper to learn more about how to choose an online PC backup solution for your mid-sized organization or enterprise!

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 | Published: 15 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: There are many IP storage capabilities that are becoming increasingly critical requirements for all customers. And there are many vendors offering various IP-based storage solutions. This paper makes the case for choosing EMC for IP storage.

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 | Published: 03 Dec 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: According to industry statistics, the majority of a typical company's data doesn't reside on data center storage -- it lives on the "edge." The edge may be desktop PCs, laptops or even smart phones and PDAs. In this transcript, W. Curtis Preston describes the most effective techniques, tools and best practices for protecting edge or mobile data.

Posted: 24 Nov 2009 | Published: 24 Nov 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript reviews current NAS trends including high-availability clustered storage to address growing storage needs and today's media-rich file environments and more.

Posted: 23 Nov 2009 | Published: 23 Nov 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: At its most basic, file virtualization is about separating file data from restrictions in how it is accessed and manipulated. It can also ease things when it comes to migrating those storage systems. Read this presentation transcript to find out more about file virtualization.

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 | Published: 16 Oct 2009