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  • NAS shoot-out: Synology DiskStation DS1511+

    I bought my first Synology NAS in 2006 -- the CS-406. The box was small, quiet, and better than the PC I was using as a do-it-myself file server. Speed was good and the product was well-designed. Much has changed in Synology products over the past six years, some for the good and some for the bad. The hardware is still solid and performance is still great, but I'm not sure I would recommend this NAS to a nontechnical business user. Other products in this class make setup and ongoing backup much easier.

  • NAS shoot-out: 5 storage servers battle for business

    The entry-level NAS market is red hot. With prices dipping below $2,000 for a versatile storage server packing 10TB of disk, there's no wonder this market segment is witnessing extremely fast growth. Unfortunately for the business customer, it's also experiencing a lot of confusion.

  • Putting the QNAP T-1079 Pro NAS to the test

    <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/toolshed/gibbs-takes-look-new-qnap-nas-devices-his">A couple of weeks ago</a> I started trying to get a <a href="http://www.qnap.com/pro_detail_hardware.asp?p_id=200">QNAP TS-1079 Pro</a> network attached storage (NAS) device set up.

  • SAN/LAN convergence can pay dividends today

    Today's workers want faster computing speeds and more storage, management wants it all under budget, and IT professionals are scrambling to save money and improve productivity. The tools of choice to achieve these goals are typically virtualization cloud computing and data center consolidation, but IT may be overlooking a simple but effective fix: storage area network (SAN) and local area network (LAN) convergence.

  • VMware, EMC release new virtual storage, smaller VMAX array

    In conjunction with VMware's release of its next generation cloud operating system, vSphere 5, EMC this week announced new vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) software and a smaller version of its top-end VMAX storage array. The VSA software pools internal disk capacity on physical servers to create a storage area network (SAN).

  • Dell offers gateway storage appliance

    Dell today announced a new appliance that allows its block-based storage area network (SAN) to store file-based data under one unified management interface.

  • Open source identity: FreeNAS 8's Josh Paetzel

    FreeNAS is an open source operating system based on FreeBSD and, as its name implies, designed for networked storage. The project recently celebrated the release of FreeNAS 8, which racked up some 43,000 downloads in the first 48 hours after its release.

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