Network Attached Storage is a lower cost, user friendly technology that allows you to attach hard disk (or optical CD / DVD) storage to your LAN (network) without the need for additional costly servers. These appliances can compliment or replace costly file servers & optical jukeboxes with faster user access, no moving robotic parts, a smaller foot print, more capacity and no additional software or client licenses for user access. NAS appliances also allow for faster / simultaneous user access to the same data. Enterprise solutions scaling to Peta Bytes and departmental solutions as low as 100GB are available with almost no downtime. If you’re about to get a new file server please call us for a NAS quote and consultation.

Benefits include:

No need for additional, general purpose servers to attach RAIDs to the network.
NAS unit can be placed anywhere there’s a Network and a power connection
No need to reboot the entire network to install the RAID and grant user access.
No need for multiple RAID systems for different Operating Systems since they can all share the NAS RAID/storage through the network. The RAID (with a warm global spare) can be managed remotely from any Internet Browser.
Have multiple NAS heads share the same clustered storage.
NAS snap shotting & replication are the next generation of "point in time" disaster recovery.

Promise                   Open-E                      HDS

Application:

NAS RAID appliances can be configured in most RAID levels with support for multiple RAID sets with different RAID levels on the same set of drives. 1-3U NAS subsystems scale to 24TB while NetApp filers have multi PB & Fibre Channel capacities, as well as a client embedded for integration into network backup schemes. Your network will not be able to tell the difference between your NAS and a dedicated file server. These products have block level access on the SAN side, file level on the NAS side AND scale to xPB. iSCSI HBA / TOE cards are offloading the TCPIP processing and alleviating the historic burden of IP storage. Allow our SEs to help you learn about tape backup solutions geared to support the DIRECT backup of IP storage.

Chelsio                               Qlogic

Latest Configs:

Our Engineers can help you install "try & buy" NAS subsystems, geared to meet your requirements, from multiple manufacturers. These OS independent storage subsystems can be satisfying your storage requirements before you pay for them
Here are a few sample configurations with current pricing.
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2TB (1.5 TB usable) NAS subsystem:           2,074.00
001  Tabletop enclosure w/ fan & power supply
004 Hot swap drive bays & carriers
004 1TB, enterprise class, 7200RPM hard drives
001 10/100/1000 (GigE) LAN connection
001 CIFS (Microsoft), AFP (Apple/Mac), NFS (Linux/Unix)

           001   Simple setup & management GUI

12TB (5.5 TB usable) NAS subsystem: 10,488.00
001 2U, rack mount enclosure w/ redundant
       hot swap fans & power supplys
012 Hot swap drive bays & carriers
012 1TB, 7200RPM SATA hard drives
002 1000 (GigE) LAN connections
001 256MB cache & NIX flash kernal

          002 Intel Xeon 2.8Ghrz w/ 4GB cache
          001 Web based management GUI

          001 Open-E Enterprise NAS Ap