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Network-attached storage (NAS) is the name given to dedicated data storage technology that can be connected directly to a computer network to provide centralized data access and storage to heterogeneous network clients. NAS differs from traditional file serving and Direct Attached Storage in that the operating system and other software on the NAS unit provides only the functionality of data storage, data access and the management of these functionalities.

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Deploying Microsoft SharePoint Server with NetApp Networked Storage
By :NetApp Published Date: Jan 21, 2009
This paper focuses generally on optimal storage and storage management for SharePoint and specifically evaluates NetApp's approach, detailing how the capabilities in NetApp's DataONTAP and SnapManager for SharePoint Server offerings help to drive storage efficiency, reduce cost, and exclude complexity in a comprehensive SharePoint implementation. It is not so much a "how to" guide, but rather a "why to" explanation. Learn more today!

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Solve Your Top Oracle Data Management Problems
By :NetApp Published Date: Apr 13, 2009
NetApp® SnapManager® for Oracle (SMO) is designed to significantly simplify all these tasks and more. In this article, we examine how you can deploy SMO to simplify and even automate data protection, recovery, and cloning across both primary and secondary storage. Learn more today!

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Curb the Data Chaos: Download Top Ten Tips for Stepping Up to SAN
By :EMC Insignia Published Date: Aug 01, 2006
EMC, the world leader in storage and IT management, developed these Top 10 Tips for SMBs considering stepping up to SAN. The following tips can help you make informed decisions when selecting the hardware and technologies that you use.
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Centrally Manage SAN Storage Configuration and Assignment for Microsoft Windows Servers
By :Sanbolic Published Date: Oct 23, 2007
Clustered volume manager enables administrators to centrally configure and assign storage assets in a SAN storage environment in Microsoft System Management Server 2003 and Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 environments.
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Sanbolic
Data Migration Strategy: Managed Server HSM for NetWare and Windows 2000/2003
By :Caminosoft Published Date: Oct 20, 2005
Companies today are faced with managing an ever-increasing amount of data. The traditional solution to this problem was to increase the amount of space on a server by adding more hard drives. This strategy would be similar to a person continually building additional rooms onto a house in order to have more space in which to store all his or her belongings, but without any thought as to where items were being stored.
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Evaluating a Storage Security Solution
By :Decru Published Date: Dec 01, 2006
Company data is vulnerable to threats from - insiders, unauthorized access to data, data backup, off-site mirroring - just to name a few. Encrypting data at rest, on tape or disk, significantly mitigates these threats. This document provides guidance into some of the factors a company should consider when evaluating storage security technology and solutions.
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Decru
ESG Lab Report: Data Deduplication and Disk-to-Disk Backup Systems - What to Know and Ask
By :Data Domain Published Date: Jul 17, 2007
While disk-to-disk (D2D) backup systems have been widely accepted as functionally superior to tape, they still carry a significant cost penalty. However, with the addition of data deduplication technology, D2D systems now provide compelling operational and cost efficiencies, thanks to increased manageability and reduced storage and bandwidth needs.
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Data Domain
File Fragmentation, SANs, NAS and RAID
By :Diskeeper Corporation Published Date: Aug 30, 2005
This document will explain the behavior and benefit of implementing Diskeeper defragmentation software with intricate modern hardware technologies such as RAID, NAS and SANs. SANs, NAS devices, corporate servers, and even high end workstations and multimedia-centric desktops characteristically implement multiple physical disk drives in some form of fault tolerant disk striping (RAID).
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Diskeeper Corporation
Hitachi's Approaches for an Increasingly Cost Conscious Data Storage World
By :Hitachi Data Systems Published Date: Jan 15, 2009
Now more than ever, organizations must carefully consider the overall financial impact of their ever expanding storage infrastructures.  However, understanding the true total cost of ownership is a challenge for most organizations due to unavailable or inaccurate information. Read the IDC Executive Brief to learn more about how this model can be effectively applied to enterprise environments.
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Hitachi Data Systems
Intelligent Platform for File Services: Titan 3000 Series
By :BlueArc Corporation Published Date: Jan 18, 2008
BlueArc’s Titan 3000 Series is designed to meet the requirements of today’s sophisticated enterprise data centers and vertical applications with new levels of storage performance, scalability and reliability. Titan is the first storage solution that consolidates and manages up to 4 petabytes of data in a single storage pool.
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BlueArc Corporation
IT Users Discuss New Ways to Protect Enterprise Data
By :Data Domain Published Date: Sep 10, 2006
This paper chronicles the implementations of three enterprises that represent a diverse set of industries (Financial, Legal and Technology). The IT managers responsible for protecting company data had the foresight to recognize the growing gap between their business continuity requirements and the ability of tape-based backup systems to meet those requirements.
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Data Domain
Improving Storage Expansion for Servers and Applications
By :Dell Storage Published Date: Feb 04, 2008
Call it growth, scaling, or expansion – whatever you call it, increasing your storage resources often strikes fear and loathing in the heart of the IT administrator. It conjures up visions of downtime, extra management tasks, frustrated users, and working nights and weekends. In addition, since capacity and performance are intimately connected, increasing storage resources can require balancing changes that affects the entire the SAN.

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Learn About Network Attached Storage and Integrating Storage into Datacenter Operations
By :Onaro Published Date: Jul 26, 2007
VPs of Infrastructure and Operations are under constant pressure to more rapidly provision infrastructure to support applications, hit cost reduction targets, and maintain or improve application availability for network attached storage. To meet these goals, they are the directors of a carefully orchestrated dance of network, server, storage and datacenter operation teams.
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Onaro
Removable Storage Technologies: A Comparative Overview
By :Spectra Logic Published Date: Feb 10, 2006
Most data storage devices can be broadly characterized as either fixed media or removable media. This paper briefly examines and compares magnetic tape, magneto-optical disk, and removable magnetic disks, and identifies their positioning, future trends, and market applications.
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Spectra Logic
Storage Operations Management - A Holistic Process
By :Creekpath Published Date: Dec 20, 2005
There is a holistic storage-management trend taking place in companies today. IT groups are acknowledging that storage should become part of the network. What businesses are finally seeing is that storage is not an isolated island, or a group of isolated islands, but part of a holistic management domain.
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Creekpath
Scalable Windows-Based NAS Using Melio File System
By :Sanbolic Published Date: Oct 20, 2005
NAS solutions built using the Windows Storage Server 2003 on standard Intel platforms provide a very cost effective solution to file serving. Servers built on this platform can export file services using CIFS, NFS, and other protocols, which provides a convenient platform to consolidate files.
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Sanbolic
Scalable NAS & SAN Storage Systems Using Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003 R2
By :Sanbolic Published Date: Oct 26, 2007
A Windows-based Storage server can utilize its internal disk drives, or connect to an external storage array, which provides more flexibility for expansion and allows file services to be integrated into an existing SAN.
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Sanbolic
SAN-Aware Operating Systems Enable Server-Based Storage Provisioning
By :Dell Storage Published Date: Feb 05, 2008
Storage consolidation was a launching point for various new technologies delivering advanced functionality. The next generational shift that is in process will free storage administrators from handling storage provisioning for applications – instead, applications will be able to request and provision storage for themselves. While today multiple tools are required to add storage to your database, soon the database will be able to take care of that itself.
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Solving the Top Six Enterprise Storage Issues with Virtualization
By :Hitachi Data Systems Published Date: Jan 07, 2008
Through use cases and common issues faced by IT organizations, this white paper offers answers to the question: 'What can storage virtualization do for my organization?' Readers will learn the various business issues that can be effectively resolved with storage virtualization technology and will understand how much or how little disruption such a technology could cause when implemented in their environments.
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Hitachi Data Systems
The Green Side of BlueArc
By :BlueArc Corporation Published Date: Feb 08, 2008
Using a custom-built NAS server and hardware-accelerated file system, BlueArc is able to deliver both high performance and industry leading energy efficiency.
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BlueArc Corporation
A New Look at Storage Consolidation
By :Creekpath Published Date: Dec 20, 2005
"Storage consolidation" is a term that has typically meant the consolidation of direct attached storage to a storage network, whether it is Network Attached Storage (NAS) or Storage Area Network (SAN). Consolidation has usually been undertaken to improve utilization of assets, lower the total cost of ownership (TCO), increase return on capital investment, improve IT operational efficiency and increase service levels.
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Creekpath
Apacer and Diskeeper Corporations - The Best Gets Better
By :Diskeeper Corporation Published Date: Sep 19, 2008
Apacer, a global leader in memory modules, announced the introduction of SSD+ Optimizer, the world’s first Solid State Drive (SSD) optimization solution with HyperFast technology from performance and reliability innovator Diskeeper Corporation®.

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Diskeeper Corporation
 
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