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The future of NAS backup
As NAS interfaces evolve to suit increased demands from data growth, determining which backup method and integration model to recommend to clients becomes tricky. Learn how to prepare for future NAS backup deployments and how the combination of virtual tape library and deduplication interfaces is affecting NAS architecture.Tip
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Storage network backup: Next generation
Storage network backup offers new possibilities for getting around performance bottlenecks. This excerpt from Storage Networks Explained describes your options and what to consider when deciding which one best suits your clients' system.Book Excerpt
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Storage network backup of file servers
Storage network backup of file servers is crucial since all applications store their data in file systems. This excerpt from Network Backup Explained discusses fundamental requirements and problems, as well as examining the functionality of modern file systems and introducing Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP).Book Excerpt
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Storage network backup: Organizational aspects
The organizational aspects of storage network backup are as important as the data backup. Help your clients mitigate the cost of human error before the errors occur with tips from the excerpt out of Storage Networks Explained.Book Excerpt
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Storage network backup: Limited opportunities for increasing performance
Storage network backup offers three options to consider for extra data-protection to increase throughput in a server-centric IT architecture. This book excerpt outlines each option and weighs the pros and cons.Book Excerpt
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Storage network backup performance bottlenecks
Storage network backup performance improvement can be limited by technicalities. This excerpt from "Storage Network Explained" discusses the limitations and the differences between application-specific boundaries and server-centric IT architecture.Book Excerpt
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Storage network backup services
Storage network backup services provide specific functions. Learn about the differences between backup, archive and hierarchical storage management in this excerpt from Storage Networks Explained.Book Excerpt
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Storage network back-up
Storage networks are fast becoming the norm in business technology and network backup. In the book, "Storage Networks Explained", The authors share their hands-on experience of network storage hardware and software. This chapter explains the basic principles of network backup and shows typical performance bottlenecks for conventional server-centric IT architectures. The last section explains how storage networks and intelligent storage systems help to overcome these performance bottlenecks.Chapter Excerpt
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Storage network backup: General conditions for backup
Storage network backup can help businesses manage ever-expanding data in ever-changing business environments where the data needs to be available 24/7. Learn more about system administrator backup headaches in this excerpt from Storage Networks Explained.Book Excerpt
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Storage network backup performance gains
Storage network backup performance can be improved by doing simple tasks like deleting unnecessary data consistently. This excerpt from Storage Networks Explained provides performance enhancement tips.Book Excerpt
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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 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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Products in the survey
The following vendors and midrange array model lines were included in the Quality Awards survey. The number of responses for each finalist is included in parentheses after the product names.Misc
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About the Quality Awards
About the Quality AwardsMisc
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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 | 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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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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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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Nexsan launches unified storage architecture with flash cache
Headlines: Nexsan releases the NST unified storage architecture supporting iSCSI and NAS, and using flash cache for a performance boost.News | 07 Mar 2012
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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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UCLA scientists tame file data storage growth with scale-out NAS, pNFS
Headlines: To deal with its file data storage needs, UCLA's Institute for Digital Research and Education bought BlueArc Titans to boost performance and Panasas ActiveStor to tackle bandwidth.News | 25 Jan 2012
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Scale-out storage options increasing with software-based systems
Scale-out storage overcomes some of the limitations of traditional NAS, and software-based scale-out NAS is lowering the entry costs for smaller customers.Channel Impact
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‘Puss in Boots’ expands DreamWorks’ NAS cluster
Headlines: Making animated movies is storage-intensive work – DreamWorks has 6 PB of capacity, including 1 PB on scale-out NAS cluster for rendering.News | 09 Nov 2011
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How to perform storage network performance analysis and fix storage network problems
Learn how to conduct storage network performance analysis to troubleshoot and fix storage network problems relating to network capacity, adapters, cabling and switches.Tip
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IBM GPFS, SSD combo shows promise for file management
Headlines: IBM GPFS scan using Violin Memory solid-state arrays shows the effect solid-state drives (SSDs) and parallel processing can have on data storage performance.News | 27 Jul 2011
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Ensuring NAS access from Windows and Unix clients
In many large and complex computing environments, administrators need to supply access to a NAS device from both Windows and Unix clients. Find out how to configure your systems for this requirement.Tip
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Nasuni Filer adds SLA, hardware option for NAS cloud gateway
Headlines: Nasuni tries to spur primary storage cloud adoption with service-level agreements, hardware option for Nasuni Filer NAS cloud gateway.News | 20 Jul 2011
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