NAS and iSCSI Convergence

Network Attached Storage, (NAS) and iSCSI continue to be one of the largest areas of growth, especially within SMB and enterprise organizations.

Easily deployable and very simple to manage, NAS along with iSCSI appliances are increasingly penetrating organizations small and large and now with both technologies being offered in a single solutions the path is clear, the StoreVault S500 by NetApp has its place in the market.

Gavin Rosenberg, the Marketing Director of Sunstar Company, Inglewood, CA says that organizations are increasingly relying on digitization of data and business information in the form of files. With the increase in the numbers of users generating and/or accessing these files they demand the ability to share files in an efficient manner to improve productivity or help achieve business goals. Users continue to generate larger files with continuing advancements in application features, graphics, processor power, and particularly as a result of increased email activity and collaboration, additional reliable and easy to implement, economical storage such as the StoreVault is a must! Let us not forget the need to address business governance and regulatory compliance, which will increase and complicate the retention of business information, forcing IT managers to develop ways to save more files generated for longer periods of time.  

Saving and retrieving data to and from the StoreVault is not a problem. With the option to utilize RAID-DP and hot spare, the odds of data being lost is very unlikely. Along with Snapshot technology, this provides point-in-time images of the entire file system that can be recorded instantly with no disruption of applications or performance. All of the security attributes are maintained with the snapshot image so that end users can be authorized to recover their own lost or corrupted files.

THE StoreVault employs hardware-based RAID-DP and can simultaneously support users among multiple platforms including Windows, UNIX, and Linux via CIFS and NFS protocols. In addition the NAS appliance offers iSCSI support as a target for the Microsoft Software iSCSI initiator.

StoreVault S500

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