11 March 2010
Thursday
A clustered NAS is a NAS that is using a distributed file system running simultaneously on multiple servers. The key difference between a clustered and traditional NAS is the ability to distribute (e.g. stripe) data and metadata across the cluster nodes or storage devices. Clustered NAS, like a traditional one, still provides unified access to the files from any of the cluster nodes, unrelated to the actual location of the data. Kenny Chu, product marketing manager for HP StorageWorks, discusses some of the technical benefits of clustered NAS.
Intelligent File Virtualization with F5 Acopia ARX Devices To meet its storage growth challenges, Warner Music Group deployed a pair of ARX6000 devices in a fault-tolerant cluster configuration, virtualizing several EMC Celerra NAS devices.
Storspeed's SP500 is a NAS caching appliance that is capable of making its own reports on performance.
Network Attached Storage are dedicated file storage servers. In this video, Sathish Murthy, technical consultant with NetApp Asia, discusses the development of NAS and the evolution of clustered NAS. He cites some industries and applications for which NAS and clustered NAS are best suited.
Network Attached Storage lets SMBs gain better utilization of their storage infrastructure without the expensive budgets that come with SAN and DAS. Sunil Chavan, director of Content & File Services for Hitachi Data Systems, discusses the most frequently asked questions among NAS for SMBs.
Traditional methods of securing your data with firewalls, file permissions, and passwords are no longer enough. Kevin Beaver discusses how you can identify weaknesses in your security and how to address them.
"one ring to rule them all" suggests that you have different rulers who lord it over their kingdoms. And yet are all subject to one lord who is master of all. In the case of unified storage, NetApp is suggesting you throw away your investment in favor of their solution to achieve unified storage. Reminds me of V-Max, on a small but still .
"The NetApp storage solution has helped us improve efficiency all within a cost-effective framework. With NetApp we are now ready to embrace future development safe in the knowledge that our technology can grow with us." edwin cheung Director, Operation & Finance, Hong Kong Institute of CPAs
Storage sprawl has become a problem for many organizations. Storage administrators are fighting back by consolidating storage hardware in order to simplify their storage environments. However, storage consolidation isn't simply a matter of buying new hardware during a technology refresh.
BlueArc, EMC, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi Data Systems and Isilon are looking to deliver a feature users have been clamoring for as data grows and budgets shrink.
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Backup and archiving have changed over recent years partly riding on advances in technology. When do you perform backup and when to archive? What are the technical and operational considerations that need to be looked into for each. This paper looks at Simpana Software as a platform for achieving both.
This paper looks at Simpana as a platform for seamlessly extending local backup and archive to a new tier of cloud-based storage. Virtually unlimited storage capacity from our integrated cloud storage partners helps users dramatically reduce costs and operational complexity while improving long-term compliance.
The move to cloud computing is not easy, and its important to get it right the first time. Curtin University of Technology with the help of Optus Business, Alphawest, Cisco, EMC, and VMware, takes the first steps that will provide Curtin with an on-demand access to a fully virtualized private data center.
Asian sports associations looking to improve performance (winning gold medals) can take a leaf off the United States Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA)'s book, when it comes to blending the best in both athletic and IT infrastructure.
