NAS Briefing
NAS Storage Intelligence (StorInt) Briefing
Our Network Attached Storage (NAS) briefing was recently updated (April 2009) with the final SPECsfs97 results and now includes SPECsfs(R) 2008 results from 2009 as well. Our NAS briefing helps storage and system administrators to
- Select the right NAS products and solutions
- Review NAS solution functionality
- Evaluate NAS system performance
- Compare and contrast NAS product features
- Understand NAS system consolidation options
Alternatives for new file storage can sometimes be bewildering and unnecessarily complex. SCI’s NAS briefing helps cut through this complexity to help one better understand NAS technology options. For example, the briefing provides the latest product NAS system performance results from SPECsfs(R) and supplies NAS system feature comparison charts that can help select the best NAS solution for your data.
Read our NAS StorInt Briefing executive summary now
Furthermore, this briefing provides a NAS system tutorial or overview and is especially useful for those IT staff looking to convert direct attached storage (DAS) into NAS file systems. To that end, SCI’s NAS briefing covers
- Traditional NAS systems or filers such as available from NetApp, EMC, BlueArc and others
- Cluster and parallel file systems such as available from Symantec, Panasas, HP/Ibrix, etc., and
- File virtualization (manager or aggregator) systems available from EMC and others.
Also, this briefing can be used by the storage or system administrator laboring under the heavy burden of managing 5 or more NAS systems. NAS solutions are easy to add to existing data center storage environments but when one ends up with a gaggle of NAS systems, problems just multiply. Such issues can render NAS system management harder than it needs to be. Our briefing can help one get a handle on NAS proliferation and show how to consolidate one’s NAS environment into fewer, more manageable systems. See our NAS Consolidation article for a preview.
SCI’s NAS briefing is often purchased with our SAN Storage briefing. When used together, the two briefings provide an in-depth understanding of both the SAN and NAS alternative solutions for storing data.
Product Description – SCI’s NAS briefing is
- 31 pages in length,
- has 6 pages of NAS solution feature comparison tables for 45 NAS solutions,
- with 6 charts covering NFS and CIFS performance,
- providing performance rankings for the top 20 NAS systems, and
- comes as a spiral bound document.
Read our NAS StorInt Briefing executive summary now
In addition to our NAS briefing, we blog on NAS and other storage topics in our RayOnStorage Blog. We also write about major NAS system announcements and provide periodic SPECsfs 2008 performance updates which are published in our free monthly newsletter. Sometime later, this information is available on our StorInt Dispatches page.
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