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NAS products Quality Awards: Oracle storage systems rated highest
In Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com’s survey, in which readers determine the best midrange and enterprise NAS systems on the market, see which products led in five categories. Survey
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Midrange storage array vendors: NetApp, Dell lead in sixth Quality Awards
NetApp barely grazes by Dell to take the top midrange storage array vendor spot in Storage magazine’s sixth Quality Awards survey. Find out how end users ranked them and six other vendors in five key categories. Quality Awards
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NAS systems implementation guide
Use this NAS systems implementation guide to navigate the issues related to customers' existing or new network-attached storage systems, including techniques to curb the growth of data on their NAS and advice on how to size a NAS. Guide
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NAS filer implementation: Solving three big problems
Implementing NAS filers for a local company is a simple project. But when the job is for a global company with offices all around the world, it's a much bigger challenge. Find out how one consultant solved the NAS filer implementation problems for a ... Advice from your peers
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How will high-performance NAS changes affect your business model?
IT solution providers must understand how predicted changes in high-performance NAS technology will influence their business and business model over the coming years. FAQ
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How is high-performance NAS changing and affecting client demand?
High-performance NAS technology continues to evolve, and solution providers must understand how those changes will affect client demand for this type of storage product. FAQ
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What are the challenges of implementing high-performance NAS?
IT solution providers facing the challenge of recommending high-performance NAS products must match the features and capabilities of the product to the unique data needs of the client, or risk poor results after deployment. FAQ
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What do solution providers look for in high-performance NAS?
Each high-performance NAS product and vendor is different. IT solution providers must know what to expect from a vendor and their products before entering a partnership or recommending that product to a client. FAQ
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What are the disadvantages of high-performance NAS technology?
High-performance NAS is not appropriate for every client. IT solution providers must understand the disadvantages of the technology and know when to recommend an alternative to the client. FAQ
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What are the benefits of high-performance NAS for the client?
High-performance NAS solution providers should understand its many benefits and capabilities, and be able to match those features to the data needs of each client to achieve best use of the technology. FAQ
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SGI adopts hybrid storage for clustered NAS
Headlines: SGI NAS uses hybrid storage with DRAM, solid-state drives and hard drives, ZFS, and SGI caching and management software in scale-out clusters. News | 16 Apr 2012
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NAS storage systems Quality Awards: EMC and IBM take top spots
Take a closer look at the results of the fifth NAS system Quality Awards. Find out why NAS storage systems are so reliable and why users ranked them so high. News | 14 Mar 2011
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Clustered NAS picked to store petabytes of digital moon images
Headlines: Bracing for petabytes of data expected to come from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), team from Arizona State University's SESE sets up multi-petabyte Isilon NAS cluster. News | 23 Feb 2011
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EMC buys clustered NAS vendor Isilon and Bus-Tech
EMC pays $2.25 billion to get into the clustered NAS market by acquiring Isilon; sees the technology complementary with Atmos object-based storage to address cloud storage customers. Article | 17 Nov 2010
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Nimbus launches new S-class solid-state storage platform; IBM SONAS gets new tiering feature
Headlines: Nimbus Data Systems rolled out a denser version of the Nimbus S-class all-solid-state storage platform as well as a new virtual switch option. The S1000 supports about 10 TB of solid-state capacity on each shelf. Article | 21 Jul 2010
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Hitachi Data Systems' Yoshida talks Sun/Oracle; Network-attached storage devices for SMBs
Headlines: Hitachi Data Systems' Hu Yoshida talks about what's next for HDS and its storage virtualization products, including the next version of its USP enterprise array; here's a look at the most popular network-attached storage devices for SMBs i... Article | 10 Mar 2010
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IBM rolls out SONAS clustered NAS based on GPFS; EMC refreshes Atmos cloud storage platform
Headlines: IBM's SONAS is based on its GPFS and Scale-Out File Services (SOFS) offering intended for large deployments; EMC adds denser hardware configurations and a GeoProtect option to Atmos for more efficient long-term data retention. Article | 17 Feb 2010
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'Avatar' studio brings BlueArc, NetApp together; NetApp launches cloud stack with Cisco and VMware
Headlines: One clustered NAS system couldn't handle all of the 3-D animations and digital effects for blockbuster movie 'Avatar', so Weta Digital turned to BlueArc Titan and NetApp FlexCache to complete the job; The the latest cloud storage-focused a... Article | 27 Jan 2010
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Gridstore releases clustered NAS platform for SMBs, MSPs
Startup Gridstore goes public with its NASg beta program for managed service providers (MSPs) looking to set up clustered NAS for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), based on Intel storage blocks running Windows. Article | 14 Dec 2009
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NetApp launches new SME FAS system, lowers price of entry-level box
NetApp adds FAS2040, a higher-capacity system for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and slashes price of entry-level FAS2020 to make it more competitive for channel partners during economic downturn. Article | 15 Sep 2009
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Scalable NAS initiative at Ancestry.com demonstrates competing products can coexist
Find out how Ancestry.com ended up with scalable NAS systems from competing companies Isilon and BlueArc -- and what lessons its use case offers to storage VARs. Channel Impact
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NAS services: Standalone NAS system vs. NAS gateway vs. virtual NAS
Read up on the pros and cons of three options that customers have when adding NAS services to their storage environment: installing a standalone NAS system or a NAS gateway or creating a virtual NAS on the SAN. Tip
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NAS server sizing and configuration factors
Find out what questions to ask customers when helping them configure a NAS server, including the number and speed of disk drives that the hardware will support, whether SSD will be used and user I/O demands. Tip
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How to integrate data storage platform software/hardware for DIY storage systems
Learn how to combine storage platform software and hardware to create an integrated storage system for customers—with better profit potential than from reselling systems from the big storage vendors. Tip
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Four reasons to sell network unified storage platforms
Find out how network unified storage platforms help your customers by lowering costs and gaining simplicity, flexibility and investment protection. Tip
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Blade storage management considerations
Blade storage management is a new challenge for many businesses and the resellers hoping to tap into blade storage needs. Keep these considerations in mind as you get started. Tip
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Apple Xserve RAID for new storage installations
Apple's Xserve RAID provides the basis for new storage installations in both all-Apple and heterogeneous environments. Get an overview of this technology that may help increase your channel business revenue. Tip
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Enhanced network-attached storage (NAS) data backup services
Network-attached storage (NAS) has grown up. Businesses are benefiting from its enhanced functionality -- but they're also struggling to manage it all. This tip outlines NAS services you should be offering. Tip
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NAS for a Web server
Learn how to use NAS to provide storage for a Web server. Ask the Expert
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Recurring revenue with NAS
Leveraging network-attached storage (NAS) properly can provide opportunities for VARs to create recurring revenue streams and build long-lasting relationships with their customers. Ask the Expert
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High-performance NAS technology podcast
Learn more about high-performance NAS technology; download this podcast with Jason Sparks, VP of Storage and Systems with Xiologix. Podcast
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SGI adopts hybrid storage for clustered NAS
Headlines: SGI NAS uses hybrid storage with DRAM, solid-state drives and hard drives, ZFS, and SGI caching and management software in scale-out clusters. News
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NAS products Quality Awards: Oracle storage systems rated highest
In Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com’s survey, in which readers determine the best midrange and enterprise NAS systems on the market, see which products led in five categories. Survey
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Scalable NAS initiative at Ancestry.com demonstrates competing products can coexist
Find out how Ancestry.com ended up with scalable NAS systems from competing companies Isilon and BlueArc -- and what lessons its use case offers to storage VARs. Channel Impact
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Midrange storage array vendors: NetApp, Dell lead in sixth Quality Awards
NetApp barely grazes by Dell to take the top midrange storage array vendor spot in Storage magazine’s sixth Quality Awards survey. Find out how end users ranked them and six other vendors in five key categories. Quality Awards
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NAS storage systems Quality Awards: EMC and IBM take top spots
Take a closer look at the results of the fifth NAS system Quality Awards. Find out why NAS storage systems are so reliable and why users ranked them so high. News
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Clustered NAS picked to store petabytes of digital moon images
Headlines: Bracing for petabytes of data expected to come from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), team from Arizona State University's SESE sets up multi-petabyte Isilon NAS cluster. News
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EMC buys clustered NAS vendor Isilon and Bus-Tech
EMC pays $2.25 billion to get into the clustered NAS market by acquiring Isilon; sees the technology complementary with Atmos object-based storage to address cloud storage customers. Article
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NAS services: Standalone NAS system vs. NAS gateway vs. virtual NAS
Read up on the pros and cons of three options that customers have when adding NAS services to their storage environment: installing a standalone NAS system or a NAS gateway or creating a virtual NAS on the SAN. Tip
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Nimbus launches new S-class solid-state storage platform; IBM SONAS gets new tiering feature
Headlines: Nimbus Data Systems rolled out a denser version of the Nimbus S-class all-solid-state storage platform as well as a new virtual switch option. The S1000 supports about 10 TB of solid-state capacity on each shelf. Article
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NAS systems implementation guide
Use this NAS systems implementation guide to navigate the issues related to customers' existing or new network-attached storage systems, including techniques to curb the growth of data on their NAS and advice on how to size a NAS. Guide
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Read network-attached storage (NAS) hardware news, tips and best practices for storage service providers, value-added resellers (VARs), consultants and systems integrators helping customers choose, deploy and integrate NAS hardware. You'll find information and expert advice on selling, implementing and supporting NAS hardware products including NAS front-end/head hardware, standalone NAS hardware, NAS gateways and other network-attached storage hardware technology.