Storage Management Strategies for the CIO
- Posted:
- Mar 15, 2013
- Published:
- Mar 15, 2013
- Format:
- Length:
- 12 Page(s)
- Type:
- Ezine
- Language:
- English
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Buyer’s Guide: Scale-Out Storage Systems
Sponsored by: SearchStorage.comIn most traditional NAS deployments, drives are simply added to the back end when more storage capacity is needed.
But over time, the heads and back-end arrays reach their limit, and you’re forced to deploy additional, separate systems. This creates “NAS sprawl” in which numerous systems must be independently managed.
Scale-out NAS was developed to solve the problem of NAS sprawl. If managing your traditional NAS is becoming too burdensome and expensive, check out this expert resource and explore:
- Traditional NAS vs. scale-out NAS
- Comparing scale-out NAS products
- When you should consider scale-out NAS
- And more