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NAS

ALSO CALLED: Storage Network and Network Attached Storage
DEFINITION: Network-attached storage (NAS) is hard disk storage that is set up with its own network address rather than being attached to the department computer that is serving applications to a network's workstation users. By removing storage access and its management from the department server,  … 
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Worldwide Disk Storage Systems 2008-2012 Forecast: Content-Centric Customers -- Reshaping Market Demand
sponsored by Ocarina Networks
WHITE PAPER: This study provides a forecast of the worldwide disk storage systems market for 2008 2012 as well as discussion of assumptions and major market trends.
Posted: 19 Nov 2008 | Published: 19 Nov 2008
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Open Storage Adoption
sponsored by Incentra Solutions
WHITE PAPER: This paper describe about Sun leading the open storage revolution, combining open-source software with industry-standard system components to reduce storage costs by up to 90 percent.
Posted: 19 Nov 2008 | Published: 19 Nov 2008
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Making Virtual Backups Real
sponsored by Diligent Technologies Corporation
WHITE PAPER: In this PowerPoint presentation Curtis Preston highlights tips to follow when getting involved in a storage virtualization project.
Posted: 18 Nov 2008 | Published: 18 Nov 2008
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Ocarina Networks Addresses the Need for More Efficient Way to Store Data
sponsored by Ocarina Networks
WHITE PAPER: Ocarina Optimizer is an appliance that runs the optimization algorithms, it resides in the network, out-of-band, and performance optimization as a post process unlike deduplication.
Posted: 13 Nov 2008 | Published: 13 Nov 2008
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eGuide: Data Deduplication for Primary Data
sponsored by Ocarina Networks
WHITE PAPER: This E-Guide will explore if Data Deduplication is suitable for primary data and what vendors are doing to keep performance high for your company's backups.
Posted: 13 Nov 2008 | Published: 13 Nov 2008
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Disaster Recovery Services FAQ
sponsored by i365, A Seagate Company
PODCAST: Dick Benton, senior consultant with Glasshouse Technologies, answers frequently asked questions about outsourcing disaster recovery in this podcast.
Posted: 12 Nov 2008 | Premiered: 11 Nov 2008
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Top 5 Data Migration Tools
sponsored by Channel Media Group
WHITE PAPER: Get a quick review of the top 5 data migration tools in the market.
Posted: 11 Nov 2008 | Published: 06 Nov 2008
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TechNet Webcast: Protect SQL Server 2008 with Data Protection Manager 2007
sponsored by Microsoft
WEBCAST: Data Protection Manager 2007 uses wizards and workflows to help ensure that you can protect your organization's data, and it doesn't require an advanced degree, training, or certification in storage and backup technologies.
Posted: 11 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Backup and Recovery: A Guide for the Law Firm technical decision maker
sponsored by i365, A Seagate Company
WHITE PAPER: EVault Software is a highly comprehensive backup and recovery platform that provides law firms with the building blocks for successful data protection-from high performance and efficiency to ease of use, flexibility and scalability.
Posted: 11 Nov 2008 | Published: 11 Nov 2008
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Deduplication: The Post—Snapshot Revolution in Storage
sponsored by Data Domain
WHITE PAPER: Organizations tend to create a great amount of similar data and deduplication makes it easier to manage this data when they do. Read this white paper to learn about deduplication and how you can use it as a fundamental tool in your storage architecture.
Posted: 06 Nov 2008 | Published: 01 Sep 2007
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Data Protection for Virtual Server Environments: Exploring Options and Technologies for Backup and Recovery of Virtual Machines
sponsored by Datalink/NetApp
WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides practical advice and considerations surrounding backup and recovery of virtual server infrastructures.
Posted: 05 Nov 2008 | Published: 05 Nov 2008
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Wide Area Data Services (WDS): Optimizing the Remote Office
sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, find out how WAFS, WAN optimization, compression, and Web acceleration technologies have come together into one powerful solution: Wide-area Data Services (WDS).
Posted: 31 Oct 2008 | Published: 31 Oct 2008
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Connected Backup for PC
sponsored by Iron Mountain Digital
WHITE PAPER: Iron Mountain's Connected Backup for PC solution eliminates the risk of data loss from enterprise desktops and laptops by automatically backing up data in the background, this solution ensures complete data protection without interrupting users.
Posted: 29 Oct 2008 | Published: 29 Oct 2008
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Evaluating NAS Performance
sponsored by Exanet
WEBCAST: This Webcast explores how scale-out clustered NAS systems deliver SAN levels of performance with the ease of management and the lower cost of NAS.
Posted: 27 Oct 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Minimize Risk with Sun StorageTek T1000b Tape Drive
sponsored by Sun StorageTek
VIDEOCAST: The Sun StorageTek T1000KB tape drive delivers the industry's highest capacity, making it ideal for 24x7 datacenter operations requiring high duty cycle data storage and retrieval.
Posted: 24 Oct 2008 | Premiered: 23 Oct 2008
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Tape Efficiencies
sponsored by Sun StorageTek
VIDEOCAST: The Sun StorageTek T10000B tape drive delivers the industry's highest capacity, making it ideal for 24x7 datacenter operations requiring high duty cycle data storage and retrieval.
Posted: 24 Oct 2008 | Premiered: 23 Oct 2008
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Protect Your Investment with Sun StorageTek T1000b Tape Drive
sponsored by Sun StorageTek
VIDEOCAST: Watch this videocast to learn how the access-centric StorageTek T-series tape drives provide you with the industry's fastest access to data (T9840D) and industry-leading capacity (T10000B) tape drive utilizing earlier generation media.
Posted: 24 Oct 2008 | Premiered: 23 Oct 2008
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1TB Tape Drive
sponsored by Sun StorageTek
VIDEOCAST: In this videocast Thomas Wultich explains how the industry's first 1 TB tape drive can help drive efficiencies, protect your investment, minimize risk, and ensure data protection.
Posted: 24 Oct 2008 | Premiered: 23 Oct 2008
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De-Duplicated Disk Backup: Addressing Backup Challenges Across the Enterprise
sponsored by Quantum Corporation
WHITE PAPER: With the DXi7500, Quantum adds an enterprise-class backup-to-disk target with de-duplication to its arsenal, making it a true provider of scalable, end-to-end de-duplicated secondary storage.
Posted: 23 Oct 2008 | Published: 23 Oct 2008
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Economy and Capacity at Odds
sponsored by Storage Magazine
JOURNAL ARTICLE: This article discusses how storage managers are starting to feel the pinch of a slowing economy, but they still have to store and protect more data than ever.
Posted: 23 Oct 2008 | Published: 01 Oct 2008
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IT Briefing: The Benefits of File Virtualization
sponsored by EMC Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This document is based on an EMC Corporation/TechTarget Webcast entitled "The Benefits of File Virtualization."
Posted: 20 Oct 2008 | Published: 18 Oct 2008
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Workday Security: A Technology Perspective
sponsored by Workday
WHITE PAPER: Workday uses industry-standard measures to protect the integrity of all communications with its online services, its production network, and across its network.
Posted: 16 Oct 2008 | Published: 16 Oct 2008
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HP Virtual Server Environment Capitalizes on Workload Management Integration
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: Virtualization can significantly improve the utilization of computing resources. In this white paper learn how virtualization can assign unused resources to workloads in other parts of an organization that can benefit from them.
Posted: 16 Oct 2008 | Published: 16 Oct 2008
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ESG LAB VALIDATION REPORT Exanet ExaStore Clustered NAS Performance
sponsored by Exanet
WHITE PAPER: This report explores how scale-out ExaStore clustered NAS systems deliver SAN levels of performance with the ease of management and the lower cost of NAS.
Posted: 15 Oct 2008 | Published: 15 Oct 2008
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Virtualization2 Management Considerations and Implications for Virtual Infrastructures
sponsored by LSI Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines the main challenges that server virtualization brings and examines how its full value can only be obtained.
Posted: 14 Oct 2008 | Published: 14 Oct 2008
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NAS DEFINITION (continued): …  both application programming and files can be served faster because they are not competing for the same processor resources. The network-attached storage device is attached to a local area network (typically, an Ethernet network) and assigned an IP address. File requests are mapped by the main server to the NAS file server.

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