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NAS (Network Attached Storage) Buying Guide 2018: Storage Features & Functionality and Several Performance Rankings - ResearchAndMarkets.com
[May 15, 2018]

NAS (Network Attached Storage) Buying Guide 2018: Storage Features & Functionality and Several Performance Rankings - ResearchAndMarkets.com


The "NAS Buying Guide" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

There are five types of NAS systems used for shared file data: NAS gateways, Integrated NAS solutions, Cluster-Parallel file systems, NAS accelerators and wide area file services (WAFS).

Some advanced file storage capabilities (see Features below) to look for in vendor NAS storage include: snapshot or point-in-time copies of file data; data reduction; and remote data mirroring/replication. Finally, as data centers consolidate more file data onto fewer NAS systems, high performance flash storage, high availability/fault tolerance, and non-disruptive upgrades should all be critical considerations.

A few new capabilities in the file storage space have recently emerged:

  • File analytics - this provides statistical and other information about file data;
  • Cloud file services/tiering services - this supplies file or archive services for specific public cloud storage providers; and
  • Object storage support - this supports native object storage interfaces and file access protocols to the same storage.

The remainder of this Buying Guide describes the various NAS products in detail, discusses NAS storage features and functionality as well as NAS system performance providing several performance rankings for NA storage systems. For example, in the NAS System Features tables below we identify feature availability and comparisons for over 40 current NAS product offerings from major vendors and in the NAS performance section we analyze NAS benchmark results ranking top NAS system performance using our NFS and SMB ChampionsCharts as well as provide top 20 NAS system performance charts for other performance metrics.



Companies Mentioned

  • Dell
  • Dell-EMC
  • Fujitsu
  • HP
  • Hitachi
  • Huawei (News - Alert)
  • IBM
  • NetApp
  • Oracle
  • Primenergy
  • SGI
  • StorWize
  • Xserve

Key Topics Covered


  1. Executive Summary
  2. NAS Product Types
  3. NAS Gateways
  4. Integrated NAS Systems
  5. Cluster, Scale-Out or Parallel File Systems
  6. NAS Accelerators, Caching Appliances or Aggregators
  7. Wide Area File Services
  8. NAS System Features
  9. NFS and SMB Access Protocol Support
  10. Object Storage Protocol Support
  11. File Size and File System Size
  12. High Availability
  13. Storage Space Efficiency
  14. Point-In-Time (P-I-T) or Snapshot Copies
  15. File System/Volume Copy
  16. Volume or File System Clones
  17. File System or Volume Extension
  18. Quality Of Service (Qos)
  19. Quota Data Management/Controls
  20. Global Name Space
  21. Network Data Management Protocol (Ndmp) Support
  22. Remote Mirroring or Data Replication
  23. Data SECurity
  24. Compliance
  25. File Analytics
  26. Data Migration
  27. Cloud Storage Tiering
  28. Automated Storage Tiering
  29. Flash Cache
  30. All-Flash Array (AFA) Storage
  31. Direct IO
  32. Unified Storage or Block I/O Support
  33. Multi-Tenancy or Partitioning
  34. NAS Feature Tables
  35. NAS Performance
  36. NFS Performance
  37. SMB Performance
  38. NFS Vs. CIFS/SMB Performance
  39. Spec Sfs2014 Performance Results
  40. NAS Pricing

For more information about this report visit https://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/nmfhtc/nas_network?w=4


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