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Information stored on NAS is just as important as that on SAN

Organizations should stop using artificial storage distinctions such as file-oriented versus block-based biases to define the value of data. Users should not assume that data stored on NAS is less important than data stored on block-based (e.g. SAN) systems. Rather, organizations should bring file-oriented storage under the umbrella of IT management and aggressively exploit big NAS technologies such as virtualization that enable consolidation and robust business continuance consistent with today's information storage requirements.

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Featured Case Study

Virtualization Energizes Cal State University

John Charles is the CIO of California State University, East Bay (CSUEB) and Rich Avila is Director, Server & Network Operations. In late 2007 they were both looking down the barrel of a gun. The total amount of power being used in the data center was 67KVA. The maximum power from the current plant was 75kVA. PG&E had informed them that no more power could be delivered. They would be out of power in less than six months. A new data center was planned, but would not be available for two years.

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Featured How-To Note

Storage Virtualization Design and Deployment

A main impediment to storage virtualization is the lack of multiple storage vendor (heterogeneous) support within available virtualization technologies. This inhibits deployment across a data center. The only practical approach is either to implement a single vendor solution across the whole of the data center (practical only for small and some medium size data centers) or to implement virtualization in one or more of the largest storage pools within a data center.

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