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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, both application programming and files can be served faster because they are not competing for the same  … 
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Recent Vendor Reports on NAS
Primary Storage Handbook: Part 2
sponsored by Ocarina Networks
WHITE PAPER: This article discusses the pros and cons of the many different techniques and methods used to optimize your company's primary storage.
Posted: 25 Nov 2008 | Published: 25 Nov 2008
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Primary Storage Handbook: Part 1
sponsored by Ocarina Networks
WHITE PAPER: This article discusses 6 requirements for deploying a primary storage optimization solution.
Posted: 25 Nov 2008 | Published: 25 Nov 2008
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Using VMware® ESX Server System and VMware Virtual Infrastructure for Backup, Restoration, and Disaster Recovery
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: VMware ESX Server System and VMware Virtual Infrastructure provides many different capabilities to improve these processes each with its own advantages and disadvantages.
Posted: 25 Nov 2008 | Published: 24 Nov 2008
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Email Archiving: Saving Money and Time for Small & Medium Businesses
sponsored by Metalogix Software, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains how exactly email archiving handles problems and at the same time reduces overall costs and saves management time.
Posted: 25 Nov 2008 | Published: 25 Nov 2008
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What Storage Managers Are Buying Storage Magazine Fall 2008 Purchasing Intentions Survey
sponsored by SearchStorage.com
PRESENTATION: Learn what storage managers for large companies have to say about currently available disk subsystems, storage networks, backup & DR, and storage management software.
Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Published: 19 Nov 2008
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Breaking the Connections: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Storage Virtualization
sponsored by SearchStorage.com
WHITE PAPER: There are numerous ways that your storage has already been virtualized, and there are many benefits to implementing more storage virtualization solutions.
Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Published: 19 Nov 2008
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Clustered Storage
sponsored by SearchStorage.com
WHITE PAPER: This document explains about Primary Storage Optimization and targeted to reduce the amount of raw storage capacity required to store a given data set.
Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Published: 19 Nov 2008
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Making a Case for CAS - The Pros and Cons of Content-Addressable Storage
sponsored by SearchStorage.com
WHITE PAPER: This presentation explains Pros and Cons of Content-Addressable Storage.
Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Published: 19 Nov 2008
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TOPICS:  CAS | NAS | OLTP | RAID | SAN

The Next Next Thing: Entering the 3rd Era of Commercial Computing
sponsored by SearchStorage.com
PRESENTATION: This document explains the 3rd Era of Commercial Computing and its characteristics.
Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Published: 19 Nov 2008
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Storage and the WAN: What Are the Options?
sponsored by SearchStorage.com
WHITE PAPER: Reining in remote or branch offices can help solve a number of storage problems, such as data protection, storage administration and management, and the proliferation of heterogeneous systems.
Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Published: 19 Nov 2008
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The Right Way to Test Storage System Performance
sponsored by SearchStorage.com
PRESENTATION: This presentation introduces the concepts needed to interpret storage system performance claims and the tools and processes required for hands-on performance analysis.
Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Published: 19 Nov 2008
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Storage Networking - The Path to Performance
sponsored by SearchStorage.com
WHITE PAPER: This document identifies aspects of performance that are or are not critical to the successful deployment of storage network technologies.
Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Published: 19 Nov 2008
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eGuide: How to Get Started with Data Deduplication
sponsored by Data Domain
WHITE PAPER: In this guide, you'll gain insight on the benefits of deduplication, as well as best practices to follow as you prepare to launch, or enhance, your data deduplication strategy.
Posted: 20 Nov 2008 | Published: 20 Nov 2008
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VMware White Paper: Transforming Disaster Recovery - VMware Infrastructure for rapid, reliable and cost-effective Disaster Recovery
sponsored by VMware, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: VMware Infrastructure transforms disaster recovery by providing you fast, reliable and cost-effective disaster recovery. Why suffer from the slow, expensive and unreliable problems associated with traditional disaster recovery solution?
Posted: 20 Nov 2008 | Published: 20 Nov 2008
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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 to 2012 as well as a discussion of assumptions and major market trends.
Posted: 19 Nov 2008 | Published: 19 Nov 2008
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The Mandate for Lights-Out IT Management
sponsored by Dorado Software
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how IT organizations can successfully automate the management of an increasingly complex IT environment.
Posted: 19 Nov 2008 | Published: 19 Nov 2008
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HP Virtualization with Intel and VMware: End-to-end Virtualization of IT Resources
sponsored by VMware, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: The VMware partnership and technical collaboration with HP and Intel enables your organization to deploy a reliable and scalable platform for building a complete virtualized data center solution.
Posted: 19 Nov 2008 | Published: 18 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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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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IDC Spotlight: Ocarina Networks Addresses the Need for Efficient Data Storage
sponsored by Ocarina Networks
WHITE PAPER: Ocarina Optimizer and Reader addresses the need to store data more efficiently. It is an appliance that runs the optimization algorithms. The technology and approach is not about deduplication or compression, which will be explained in this IDC profile.
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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NAS DEFINITION (continued): …  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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