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NAS

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,  … 
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Storage Economics Podcast: Ideas and Tactics to Reduce Storage Total Cost of Ownership
sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems
PODCAST: David Merrill, Chief Storage Economist at Hitachi Data Systems, discusses concepts and principles around storage TCO, ideas and tactics to reduce the cost of your storage architecture, and what the analysts are saying about storage...
Posted: 29 Dec 2008 | Premiered: 24 Dec 2008
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Sun Storage 7000 Video
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
WEBCAST: Discover how the Sun Storage 7000 can radically simplify your storage, improving performance and cutting costs.
Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Tips for protecting the edge: remote-office data protection
sponsored by Overland Storage
PODCAST: This Podcast provides storage pros with some effective approaches on how to incorporate and manage remote backups centrally from a main data center.
Posted: 09 Dec 2008 | Premiered: 08 Dec 2008
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Clustered Storage - From SMB, to Scientific, to Social Networking and Web 2.0
sponsored by Isilon Systems
WEBCAST: This Webcast breaks down the truth about clustered storage and answers some of the most important questions surrounding the subject. Find out more today.
Posted: 09 Dec 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Podcast: Clustered Storage - From SMB, to Scientific, to Social Networking and Web 2.0
sponsored by Isilon Systems
PODCAST: This Podcast breaks down the truth about clustered storage and answers some of the most important questions surrounding the subject. Find out more today.
Posted: 09 Dec 2008 | Premiered: 04 Dec 2008
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VMWare/Dell EQL Simple, Affordable, Integrated Disaster Recovery and Data Protection for Virtual Infrastructures
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
WEBCAST: Virtualized iSCSI SANs are increasingly being chosen for virtual datacenter deployments because they help simplify storage management and overcome performance, scalability and cost barriers of traditional SAN architectures.
Posted: 02 Dec 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Maximizing the Benefits of Virtualization with Dell and Citrix
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
WEBCAST: Join us for this live eSeminar to learn important considerations in your virtualized server and storage environments.
Posted: 02 Dec 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Taking Your IT Consolidation to the Next Step with VMware, HP and Intel
sponsored by VMware, Inc.
WEBCAST: Virtualization allows you to pool and share your IT resources to reduce costs, simplify your IT environment and increase business agility.
Posted: 25 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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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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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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Evaluating NAS Performance
sponsored by Exanet
WEBCAST: This Webcast explores how scale-out clustered NAS systems deliver SAN levels of performance with the ease of management and the lower cost of NAS.
Posted: 27 Oct 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Minimize Risk with Sun StorageTek T1000b Tape Drive
sponsored by Sun StorageTek
VIDEOCAST: The Sun StorageTek T1000KB tape drive delivers the industry's highest capacity, making it ideal for 24x7 datacenter operations requiring high duty cycle data storage and retrieval.
Posted: 24 Oct 2008 | Premiered: 23 Oct 2008
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Tape Efficiencies
sponsored by Sun StorageTek
VIDEOCAST: The Sun StorageTek T10000B tape drive delivers the industry's highest capacity, making it ideal for 24x7 datacenter operations requiring high duty cycle data storage and retrieval.
Posted: 24 Oct 2008 | Premiered: 23 Oct 2008
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Protect Your Investment with Sun StorageTek T1000b Tape Drive
sponsored by Sun StorageTek
VIDEOCAST: Watch this videocast to learn how the access-centric StorageTek T-series tape drives provide you with the industry's fastest access to data (T9840D) and industry-leading capacity (T10000B) tape drive utilizing earlier generation media.
Posted: 24 Oct 2008 | Premiered: 23 Oct 2008
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1TB Tape Drive
sponsored by Sun StorageTek
VIDEOCAST: In this videocast Thomas Wultich explains how the industry's first 1 TB tape drive can help drive efficiencies, protect your investment, minimize risk, and ensure data protection.
Posted: 24 Oct 2008 | Premiered: 23 Oct 2008
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Storage Optimization for Exchange
sponsored by Azaleos Corporation
WEBCAST: Please join us for a webinar featuring a discussion of how to best architect and implement a long term storage strategy for Exchange Server.
Posted: 09 Oct 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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HP StorageWorks MSA2000 Family
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WEBCAST: The new HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Arrays offer the best price-performance features for direct attach environments, small clusters, and entry-level and mid-range SAN environments.
Posted: 08 Sep 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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HP StorageWorks All-in-One Systems
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WEBCAST: Manage, grow and protect your expanding data storage environment with HP's radically simple, affordable, and reliable network storage solutions for smaller IT environments.
Posted: 08 Sep 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Untangling Data Deduplication
sponsored by Overland Storage
VIDEOCAST: In this videocast, analyst and industry veteran Arun Taneja uncovers some of the important basics and trends related to data deduplication.
Posted: 09 Jul 2008 | Premiered: 09 Jul 2008, 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT)
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Value-Added Services: Pushing Beyond the Box
sponsored by Kaseya
VIDEOCAST: Greg Schulz, Founder and a Senior Analyst for the StorageIO Group, discusses Storage Services and Managed Services and how both can contribute to the bottom line for channel companies.
Posted: 23 Jun 2008 | Premiered: 23 Jun 2008, 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT)
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The Next Steps of Storage Virtualization
sponsored by CDW Corporation
VIDEOCAST: In this expert Videocast, Marc Staimer covers the importance of storage virtualization and best practices for preparing to implement a solution.
Posted: 26 Mar 2008 | Premiered: 26 Mar 2008, 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT)
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Scaling Storage with Clustering
sponsored by Isilon Systems
VIDEOCAST: In this Videocast, storage expert Greg Schulz breaks down the truth about clustered storage and answers some of the most important questions surrounding the subject.
Posted: 02 Jan 2008 | Premiered: 09 Sep 2008
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Simplifying Data Centers & Storage Area Networks by Creating a Virtual Infrastructure Layer
sponsored by OnPATH Technologies
WEBCAST: A virtual infrastructure layer can help your organization adapt to the dynamic needs of a virtualized data center by providing a more secure environment that enables a hands-off approach to managing the SAN. This Webcast provides an overview of the...
Posted: 23 Oct 2007 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Scaling Storage with Clustering
sponsored by IBM Software Group
PODCAST: In this Podcast, storage expert Greg Schulz breaks down the truth about clustered storage and answers some of the most important questions surrounding the subject.
Posted: 31 Aug 2007 | Premiered: 31 Aug 2007, 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT)
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NAS DEFINITION (continued): …  both application programming and files can be served faster because they are not competing for the same 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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