Size doesn't matter, or so the old adage goes. Yet obviously it does matter -- or else we wouldn't have both towering desktop PCs and petite portable netbooks. But how about something like a network-attached storage (NAS) device, which is basically a box that sits on a shelf or a desk and never travels, never moves -- does size matter there?
As companies are diving deeper into virtualized storage projects, IT managers are getting a better understanding of the staff skills they need to make those projects s쳮d. The exact talents required depend on the type of storage implementation, but most employers say they're in the market for two kinds of IT worker: technicians with vendor-specific SAN or NAS knowledge, and systems administrators and IT architects who understand the complexities and interdependencies among applications, operating systems
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Periodically we have different "special" projects come up where additional storage would be handy to have. Somethimes we are doing mass upgrades of workstations as new ones arrive. Other times we are doing data recovery from a suspect hard drive that may be failing. Although we can use some storage space on one of the servers but we would prefer to keep the traffic local to us and off of the network. We have thought about buying a NAS box but in the middle of a budget year, if we can use parts we may alrea
If IBM's acquisition of Israeli start-up XIV Information Systems wasn't enough of a surprise so soon into the New Year, there was another surprise from Network Appliance, which bought storage management vendor Onaro. I've always been a fan of Onaro and its SANScreen product, which provides real-time analysis and monitoring of how storage, servers and network devices interact when faced with changes to the infrastructure.
BlueArc unveiled a network-attached storage array last week that adds search, indexing, classification and data retention capabilities to its Titan NAS platform. The Titan 3000 Series boasts twice the performance of the company's Titan 2000 and doubles the capacity - up to 4PB.
I tend to focus much of my time on software, and every now and then, I seem to forget (almost) that my neighbor EMC is still in the hardware business. EMC is pretty good about reminding me though. Take for instance what the company did last week.
Can you justify a SAN today? If so, don't buy all your disks upfront because they'll be cheaper soon. And if you're not taking advantage of the SAN's advantages in multiple server support, RAID or high throughput, a NAS is still your best value.
Buffalo Technology is bumping up against the limits of Intel's Atom platform with its forthcoming six- and eight-bay Terastation NAS (network attached storage) devices, on show at Cebit this week.
EMC announced Monday it is buying NAS vendor Isilon Systems for roughly $2.25 billion. Both companies' boards have approved the deal, which is expected to be finalized later this year.
Red Hat announced Tuesday that it is acquiring Gluster, which makes open-source software that clusters commodity SATA drives and NAS systems into massively scalable pools of storage, in a cash deal valued at about $136 million. Gluster is also a contributor to the OpenStack cloud project and Red Hat is promising this involvement will continue. Indeed, Red Hat is now uncharacteristically saying its support of OpenStack will grow even beyond Gluster to the next release of Fedora.
This is the latest version of Netgear's Storage Central line of storage enclosures, which lets you "make your own" network-attached storage (NAS) device by just inserting one or two 3.5-inch SATA drives of any capacity into the enclosure.
How storage virtualization technologies allow you to keep pace with ever-increasing storage requirements while maintaining high availability and service levels
Over the past year, network-attached storage has gotten quite the shot in the arm. In an effort to address common customer concerns, both chip and NAS vendors have come together to provide one more step along the evolutionary path to serving files in a high-performance and scalable environment. This is the first of three articles that will discuss how the NAS environment is changing to take advantage of emerging technologies.
The watchdogs at the Government Accountability Office issued report on the integration of unmanned aerial systems as it calls them, in US national airspace (NAS) today ahead of a congressional hearing on the topic. As it has noted in past reports, the GAO said the main issues continue to include the ability for drones to avoid other aircraft in the sky; what backup network is available and how should the system behave if it loses its communications link.