SAN-NAS Buying Guide

There are many data storage buying guides out today presenting themselves as objective comparisons. But we firmly believe published and audited performance benchmarks provide the only truly objective criteria for any storage system comparisons. As such, our Buying Guide supplies analyses of published performance benchmarks that spans both NAS and SAN storage solutions, with multiple metrics charted, to give a general feel for storage system capabilities but not as to overwhelm one with data (for that see SAN Storage and NAS Buying Guides).

One thing you won’t find here is a “single best storage system”. There are just too many variables for most storage systems and application environments to claim one best system for everyone. So if you searching for that, please go elsewhere.

SCI’s SAN-NAS Buying Guide can help one understand both file (NAS) and block (SAN) data storage capabilities and performance, so that you can purchase better storage for your data center. Specifically, this guide helps admins:

• Understand both NAS and SAN storage features and performance,
• Compare NAS and SAN storage technologies and capabilities
• Choose between NAS or SAN storage solutions, and
• Costs $164 plus shipping.

SAN-NAS Buying Guide Author

SCI’s SAN-NAS Buying Guide was written by Ray Lucchesi, a 30 year storage industry veteran, a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in file storage, and an award-winning speaker and frequent author on storage industry topics. At his former employer (StorageTek) Ray developed and/or managed the engineering of enterprise class storage systems for over 20 years and has been an highly respected, storage industry analyst since then. Ray also publishes a free monthly newsletter which discusses storage performance results and major storage announcements (sign up Newsletter page)

SAN-NAS Buying Guide Description

Our first edition of a Storage Area Network-Networked Attached Storage (SAN-NAS) Buying Guide represents a comprehensive introduction to networked data storage. We have supplied information on NAS (CIFS and NFS) and SAN (FC, FCoE and iSCSI) storage technologies to guide IT staff to the optimum solution for their applications. Where possible, the focus is on small to medium business storage solutions but most of what’s here pertains to enterprise customers as well.

Choosing between NAS or SAN storage solutions for your application storage can be a tough decision. Traditionally high performance applications would have required SAN storage and lower performance applications would have used NAS storage. But with today’s high performing CIFS and NFS filers and iSCSI or FCoE (FC over Ethernet) SAN storage the answer to the SAN vs NAS question has become even more complicated. As such, we believe our SAN-NAS Buying Guide can help you make better decisions on which NAS or SAN storage to deploy.

 
SCI’s SAN-NAS Buying Guide

• consists of 17 pages of text, tables, and charts,
• discusses when and where to use NAS or SAN storage technology,
• has 14 NAS and SAN storage performance charts covering SPECsfs2008, SPC and ESRP results, providing performance rankings and comparisons of the top storage subsystems,
• comes as a spiral bound document

SAN-NAS Buying Guide discounts available

SCI’s SAN-NAS Buying Guide is frequently purchased with our NAS Storage Buying Guide and/or SAN Storage Buying Guide and when purchased at the same time we provide a 10% discount. When used together, these buying guides can provide a great introduction and an in-depth understanding of both the SAN and NAS alternative shared infrastructure solutions for storing data. (For more information see our Products page, about 1/2 of the way down.)

If you are interested in an even more significant discount off list price for providing a customer testimonial on our SAN-NAS Buying Guide, please give us a call at +1-720-221-7270.
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For other questions

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