The following is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of “Storage Area Network Fundamentals” (ISBN 158705065X ) published courtesy of Cisco Press. With the growing popularity of storage area networks (SANs), ...

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The first requirement--sharing data between servers--is addressed by Network Attached Storage (NAS). A NAS device provides file access to clients that it connects to using file access protocols ...

Similar to the way in which a storage-area network improves the management of structured data and block storage environments, a file-area network (FAN) helps improve the management of unstructured ...

As file sizes and data sets grow into the terabyte and petabyte range, users are looking for a method for storing, accessing and sharing the files among different hosts. That’s where clustered and ...

The world's two main networked storage architectures--SAN and NAS--are breeding. EMC, IBM and less well-known storage specialists such as BlueArc are beginning to mix and match the best elements of ...

As more servers were added to run business-critical applications, the problems with DAS became more exaggerated. In a client-server architecture, storage is local to each server. Each storage device ...

Macworld.com – A network-attached storage (NAS) drive is a dedicated storage device that uses its own operating system and software to provide centralized storage and file sharing over a computer ...

A business may start off with only five employees and quickly grow to 25, so it's just as important to think about your network as it is to think about data storage and management. As a company grows, ...

Spoiler: there isn’t just one network definition. Learn everything you need to assess various network types, topologies, and architectures. The simple network definition: a system that links other ...