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Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems: The Core of an Accelerated MCAE Workflow by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
to provide highly reliable, file based, high performance I/O services for MCAE applications running on a high performance computational cluster...
Arrays Score with Both File and Block by Storage Magazine
SCSI, iSCSI and FC are superior to the file-based access methods of NAS when it comes to non-file-based data access...
Solaris ZFS File System Features and Enhancements in the Solaris Operating System for Enterprise Users by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Solaris ZFS file system helps companies take advantage of open storage platforms, enhance data services, and ease administration...
Big Files Create Big Backup Issues by Storage Magazine
when transferring a gigantic file. Even if a backup job is successful, the data in a large file may have changed in the hours it took to create the backup image...
Strategies for PST File Elimination by Mimosa Systems
solution which optimizes the storage capabilities of Microsoft Exchange Server. Email growth is exploding, and the common practice of saving old email and...
Demystifying Unix dump by Storage Magazine
the dump utility to back up Unix-based files can be a tricky undertaking. The following excerpt from W. Curtis Preston's new book, Backup & Recovery...
Implementing the Lustre File System with Sun Storage: High Performance Storage for High Performance Computing by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
of the Sun Lustre™ file system as a scalable storage cluster using Sun Fire™ servers, high speed/low latency InfiniBand interconnects,...
Reduce Your Storage Footprint: Data Reduction with Online Storage Optimization by Ocarina Networks
the explosive growth of online storage that lets you store up to 10 times more file data on storage you already have. Ocarina File-Aware Optimization is a...
IT Briefing: The Benefits of File Virtualization by EMC Corporation
Webcast entitled "The Benefits of File Virtualization." File virtualization is a set of interrelated technologies that administrators are deploying to...
Intelligent File Virtualization: Breaking Free from the Constraints of Today's File Storage Infrastructure by F5 Networks
issues pertaining to current file storage infrastructure in a simple and effective manner. This white paper introduces the Acopia intelligent file...
Global Data Deduplication Results with NetBackup PureDisk by Symantec Corporation
a highly scalable software-based storage system, and integration with NetBackup for greater functionality. Enterprises are seeking new ways to tackle their...
Magnum Semiconductor Cuts Backup Costs in Half, Reduces Backup Time by 80% with ProtecTIER™ by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company

Based on keeping backup data on the storage array for a 60-day retention time, Intellistore was confident these combined solutions would allow Magnum to save...
IDC Spotlight: Ocarina Networks Addresses the Need for Efficient Data Storage by Ocarina Networks
storage optimization for file-based storage. File system vendors, NAS vendors, as well as storage hardware and server vendors could differentiate their offering by...
Sun Storage and Archive Solution for HPC by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
is intended for IT managers and storage architects familiar with HPC applications and data requirements in the organization. Today's exponential growth...
Solve Exchange Storage Problems Once and for All: A New Approach without Stubs or Links by Mimosa Systems
NearPoint can reduce Exchange storage and keep email accessible to end users, without requiring stub files in Exchange. Microsoft Exchange...
Stamp out NAS Threats by Storage Magazine
of the exploits that plague Windows-based systems: viruses, worms, unauthorized access, data tampering, snooping and IP spoofing. But even though NAS runs on...
Overcoming the Challenges of Tape with a Disk-Based Backup Solution by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
the pros and cons of tape and disk-based storage and presents a cost analysis of ExaGrid's disk-based backup system with data de-duplication and compression vs...
Using the F5 Acopia ARX for Automated Storage Tiering by F5 Networks
an ever increasing amount of file data. The F5 Acopia intelligent file virtualization solution provides an automated tiering approach, without the...
Evaluating NAS Performance by Exanet
This Webcast explores how scale-out clustered NAS systems deliver SAN levels of performance with the ease of...
Top Ten Reports to Identify "Junk" Data in Your Storage Network by Quest Software
manage and control data-center storage. Analysis and storage consolidation helps recover wasted assets. Learn to identify and eliminate useless data. Read...
Using Disk-based Backup for Better Backups and Restores by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
woes through an efficient disk-based backup solution. Concord Camera Corp. designs, develops, manufactures and markets, popularly priced, easy-to- use image...
Deploying Hybrid Storage Pools: With Sun Flash Technology and the Solaris ZFS File System by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
its introduction into a new tier of storage infrastructure. This Sun BluePrint article provides an overview of Flash technology, and discusses its...
Storage-as-a-Service: Best Efforts or Best Practice? by Iron Mountain Digital
Storage-as-a-Service enables enterprises to gain the very capabilities they need to bring their efforts to the next...
HP All-in-One Storage Systems by Hewlett-Packard Company
HP All-in-One storage system from HP combines a window file server with an ICSI storage array while including integrated data protection...
LEARNING GUIDES
set out to make a network-attached storage (NAS) system that would be easy to use and easy to manage.

Today's NAS products remain true to that guiding principle.

"The...

of a NAS array is its use of file-based protocols: NFS for Unix- and Linux-based systems, and CIFS in Windows environments (although Windows supports an NFS...
disk -- mostly direct attached storage -- with another separate library of tape backup totaling 2-3 TB," he says. But over the past five years, operations grew to...