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The FAS6200 Series is the high-end storage system family offered by NetApp. The V6200 series, which parallel the FAS6200 systems, are open storage controllers that virtualize third party arrays. NetApp provides families or series of products targeted with different performance … Continued
Review of NetApp’s FAS3200 and V3200 products announced November 2010
The NetApp fabric-attached storage (FAS) series supports Fibre Channel SAN, FCoE, IP SAN (iSCSI), SAS and network-attached storage (NAS) environments via NFS and CIFS. NetApp refers to fabric-attached storage systems as storage connected to hosts via any network. The FAS … Continued
Updated with June 5, 2013 announcements. Deduplication as post processing is now available.
EMC VNXe NAS Product Analysis
Detailed comparison of feature functionality between vendor products. Covers High End, Mid Range and Entry Level
EMC VNX NAS Product Brief
The EMC VNX series of storage systems are a family of systems that provides unified file and block storage and replace the CLARiiON and Celerra product lines. The systems provide a wide set of connectivity options for block access … Continued
Analysis of NetApp’s embedded operating environment, DataONTAP
Questions to be asked regarding Storage Resource Management
The HP X9000 Network Storage System implements a parallel cluster file system with three configurations to achieve a high-end, highly scalable NAS system. The HP X9000 represents a scale-out NAS system where the capacity and performance can be scaled with … Continued
The HP X9000 Network Storage System implements a parallel cluster file system with three configurations to achieve a high-end, highly scalable NAS system.
The Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS) is the follow-on generation to the Adaptable Modular (AMS) for mid-tier enterprise storage. In addition to advancements made to the existing AMS system hardware and software features, the HUS includes NAS capability … Continued
The Hitachi HNAS systems are scale-out NAS systems with custom hardware designs for high performance NFS and CIFS access. They are dedicated file-serving appliances with the ability to scale to 16PB in a single namespace with a single file system … Continued
A evaluation guide covering all of enterprise storage. Details what types of storage are best suited to storing specific types of data, how to create a storage strategy and architecture. Covers primary, secondary and data protection.
Analysis of NetApp’s multi-protocol FAS2000 entry level series products
The NAS Storage Evaluation Guide is part of a series of guides designed to help IT professionals evaluate storage technology alternatives. This Guide helps buyers understand the options and products available and match requirements to technology choices.
Randy Kerns explores Solid State Technology and its many variations of use in the storage industry. He covers the different approaches to utilize solid state technology and the value of the solutions in different environments.
The Dell EqualLogic FS7600 and FS7610 are scale-out NAS systems providing high performance NFS and CIFS access. The systems use paired controllers called nodes and EqualLogic storage arrays and can scale with additional controller pairs (currently limited to two pairs) … Continued
The IBM SONAS system is the offered by IBM to meet large-scale file storage requirements. The key capability with SONAS is the very large scaling of up to 21.6 PB and the ability to create a global namespace for access … Continued
BlueArc Titan and Mercury Product Brief
EMC Isilon Product Brief
The Dell EqualLogic FS7500 is a scale-out NAS system providing high performance NFS and CIFS access. It uses paired controllers called nodes and EqualLogic storage arrays and can scale with additional controller pairs (currently limited to two pairs) and eight … Continued
The HP X9000 Network Storage System implements a parallel cluster file system with three configurations to achieve a high-end, highly scalable NAS system. The HP X9000 represents a scale-out NAS system where the capacity and performance can be scaled with … Continued
Review of Microsoft’s Window Storage Server Platform
Product Analysis of IBM’s SONAS. Updated April 2011 with performance SPECsfs2008 information.
This document provides an overview and analysis of the major features and functions of the NetApp FAS6000 and V6000 storage systems.
This document provides an overview and analysis of the major features and functions of the NetApp FAS3100 and V3100 storage systems.
Analysis of the DART OS for Celerra, functionality and data protection
Analysis of the EMC Celerra product family of storage systems providing both file-based and block storage.
Isilon Systems has created a scale out NAS architecture based on clustering multiple nodes to address customer needs in performance, capacity, and price. The OneFS operating system of the Isilon IQ enables the clustering and all features to provide the performance … Continued
In this paper, John Webster enumerate the attributes of a storage environment designed for sustainable, high velocity growth, and reviews Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS) as a platform for sustainable storage and data management.
This report examines and details the Hitachi approach to delivering storage capacity efficiency via its USP V and VSP platforms. In doing so, it will highlight how Hitachi looks at the overall economics of storage by reducing relevant operating expenses … Continued
In this test analysis, Evaluator Group assesses Starboard Storage Systems’ AC72 system; The evaluation focuses on several aspects with a particular focus on performance. The validation consisted of quantitative test efforts, which sought to characterize measurable attributes, along with a … Continued
On February 6, 2012, EMC announced the VFCache product which was previously previewed to analysts as Project Lightning. The VFCache product consists of both hardware and software that resides within a server to enhance performance for some applications.
Questions to be asked regarding Network Attached Storage
Graphical representation of different storage architectures
The BlueArc Titan 3000 series (OEM’d by HDS) is the current line of Titan offerings and covers the high-performance enterprise market with a system that scales to 4PB of storage capacity and provides advanced features and functionality.
The BlueArc Mercury series of Network Attached Storage is the mid-tier storage systems offered from BlueArc. The Mercury series complements the Titan 3000 series and share most of the design and functionality of the Titan line. The primary difference between … Continued
John Webster discusses strategies and requirements for RFP’s in 2011. This tutorial was presented at SNW Spring 2011.
Updated 4/2011 with IBM and EMC. Review of approaches to Automated Tiering by multiple vendors.
Automated tiering drove many storage technology discussions in 2010. We saw EMC introduce FAST—EMC’s approach to implementing SSD among its primary disk storage platforms. We also saw the acquisition of 3PAR by HP and Compellent by Dell. 3PAR’s InForm and … Continued
Discussion on the difference and planning considerations for bulk versus archive storage types
Cloud Storage, ITaaS as becoming a new business model. This paper discusses the difference between business and consumer class cloud architectures. In the examples, highlights the Bycast (NetApp) implementation.
On June 7, 2010, Permabit of Cambridge, MA announced the availability of a new data deduplication software developers kit named Albireo that can be embedded in primary, secondary, backup and archival storage systems by OEM storage vendors.
Discussion on the architecture of Scale-up and Scale-out storage.
On Jan 26, 2010 NetApp, Cisco and VMware announced their approach to the integration of data center infrastructure. These 3 vendors will collaborate to offer pretested and validated designs, along with cooperative support.
Evaluator Group highlights critical considerations to move your data center into the future while increasing service levels and reducing costs
Announcement Summary of Sun 7000 Unified Storage
Summary of HP’s ExDS9100 cloud storage system announcement
Product analysis of NetApp’s midrange FAS3000 multi-protocol series products
HP ProLiant Storage Server NAS Analysis
Announcement Summary of EMC Rainfinity File Management Appliance
Product Analysis of NearStor. NearStor is no longer actively marketed.
Analysis of EMC’s Rainfinity 7.0 File Virtualization Announcement
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