NAS Briefing

Our Network Attached Storage briefing was recently updated (April 2009) with the final SPECsfs97 results and now includes SPECsfs2008 results. Our latest NAS briefing helps storage and system administrators to

- Select the right NAS technology
- Review NAS product performance so that you can make a better choice
- Understand NAS consolidation solutions to help make better decisions

The options for network storage consolidation can sometimes be bewildering and are necessarily complex. SCI’s briefing helps cut through this complexity to help you to understand NAS server technology and software product features. In addition our NAS briefing provides product performance and feature comparison reviews that can help you make a better choice for how to deal with NAS proliferation. This briefing provides a NAS system tutorial and is especially useful for those end-users looking to convert their direct attached storage (DAS) into NAS file systems. Our briefing also provides a review of NAS technology and systems. This briefing can be used in conjunction with our other SAN briefing to provide an understanding of the SAN or NAS storage product choice. See our NAS Consolidation article in our document archive for a preview of this briefing.

This briefing is for the storage or system administrator who is laboring under the heavy burden of trying to manage GB to TB of DAS storage or has 5 or more NAS systems and is looking for a way out from under this workload. NAS servers go in so easily because they are very quick to install in isolation but when you end up with a gaggle of NAS storage on your floor the problems seem to multiply rather than subside.

About the briefing
- 33 pages
- For a summary of this briefing please download
NAS Briefing ToC and Synopsis (PDF 212KB)
our NAS Briefing Version 2.0 Table of Contents and Synopsis section