General NAS purchase considerations

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NAS and Storage Gateways by Dell, Inc.
Consolidation, you will learn how to purchase NAS appliances with an eye toward NAS storage consolidation. Any storage consolidation effort must involve a serious...
Upstart Tops NAS Vendors by Storage Magazine
Storage magazine Quality Award for NAS systems, top NAS vendors like Network Appliance and EMC scored well, but BlueArc emerged as the surprise winner. In the...
What's New in BlackBerry® Enterprise Server v4.1 with Service Pack 5 for Microsoft® Exchange by BlackBerry
Feature overview ▪ Administrative considerations for Microsoft Exchange ▪ Related product releases ▪ Upgrade and purchase information
Using the F5 Acopia ARX for Automated Storage Tiering by F5 Networks
of file data is being stored on general purpose Network Attached Storage (NAS). This leads to a number of challenges: High costs. While not all data merits the same...
Storage and virtualization: Options for storage for VMs and Virtualized Environments by EMC Partner Organization
This Videocast Q&A discusses considerations and challenges around managing storage in a virtual infrastructure. Topics include what to consider when choosing a...
Storage Software Considerations for Virtual Environments by Dell, Inc.
In the fifth and final chapter of the SearchStorage All-in-One Guide on Storage Consolidation, learn how...
Meeting the Challenges Affecting Data Replication Performance and Reliability by F5 Networks
center geographical placement considerations, increased regulations, and risk management. There is an increased business sensitivity to data loss, and risks that...
Data Protection for Virtual Server Environments: Exploring Options and Technologies for Backup and Recovery of Virtual Machines by Datalink/NetApp
provides practical advice and considerations surrounding backup and recovery of virtual server infrastructures. A dizzying range of technology choices awaits IT...
Evaluating NAS Performance by Exanet
explores how scale-out clustered NAS systems deliver SAN levels of performance with the ease of management and the lower cost of NAS. Typically, customers...
ESG LAB VALIDATION REPORT Exanet ExaStore Clustered NAS Performance by Exanet
how scale-out ExaStore clustered NAS systems deliver SAN levels of performance with the ease of management and the lower cost of NAS. Typically, customers...
Comparing Deduplication Approaches: Technology Considerations for Enterprise Environments by SEPATON
to deduplicate data highlights considerations for choosing the best technology for that purpose. Deduplication is becoming an essential tool to help data managers...
All VTLs Are Not Created Equal: Considerations for Enterprise-Scale Virtual Tape Libraries by Diligent Technologies Corporation
tape technology based on a few key considerations will help narrow the field and minimize buyer’s remorse...
NAS and virtualization: Right scenarios, right choices, right deployments by Hewlett-Packard Company
Deciding the best place for NAS implementation is very hard in the complicated world of the new data center. In this webcast, Anil Desai describes the...
Enterprise Disk Arrays by Dell, Inc.
In the third chapter of the SearchStorage All-in-One Guide on Storage Consolidation, learn about the purchasing...
Stamp out NAS Threats by Storage Magazine
There are numerous threats to NAS data and many different ways to protect it. The trick is to find the right level of protection for the perceived risk. NAS...
NAS and virtualization: Right scenarios, right choices, right deployments Podcast by Hewlett-Packard Company
Anil Desai describes the right NAS scenarios, right choices and the right deployment options for your infrastructure. Virtualization has brought next...
A Guide to Evaluating Enterprise Content Management Software by EMC Corporation
As with any enterprise software purchase, purchasing enterprise content management (ECM) software represents a major commitment of resource-time, money, and...
Matching Your System Architecture to an Archiving Solution: Considerations and Best Practices by Sunbelt Software
up to speed with the architectural considerations that might come up along the way? Watch this videocast to hear Chief Technical Officer for Contoural Inc., an independent...
Taneja Group: Evaluating File Virtualization Solutions by EMC Corporation
challenges of traditional NAS. Download this Taneja Group white paper to learn five strategic questions you should ask your vendors when evaluating...
The Starting Point for Backup Recovery and Archive by EMC Corporation
Are you in the midst of planning how to meet your backup, recovery and archiving needs? This white paper explains key...
Purchasing Storage: What the Vendors Don’t Want You to Know by Storage Decisions and i365, A Seagate Company
help you plan to make a major storage purchase by explaining how to maximize your storage budget, how to negotiate with vendors, and how to make storage decisions...
Getting a handle on iSCSI by EMC Partner Organization
What are some of the most important considerations when implementing an iSCSI SAN? • What are some of the biggest problem areas to watch for when implementing an iSCSI SAN...
The Benefits of an Online Data Backup Solution by Iron Mountain Digital
Explosive data growth, along with the risks associated with losing data, cause backup to be job number one for storage...
Importance of Unified I/O in VMware® ESX Servers by Mellanox Technologies
challenges that need to be given due considerations. When it comes to unifying server I/O with best price-performance and end-to-end FC SAN connectivity, InfiniBand is the...
LEARNING GUIDES
by encryption software running on a general server. While software-based encryption is typically handled as a specific event or process (e.g., encrypting data during...