* Posts by Tommygun

3 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Jul 2010

SAN vs NAS: Spelling out the differences

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Bake your own SAN?

And how to you guarantee throughput between the storage and an application? And what happens as you expand your storage capacity? And where's the redundancy? Businesses don't just use SANs for performance - it's the reliability that's key. That's how EMC Symmetrix has held the top spot in datacentre SANs.

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SAN 'expense' vs NAS 'cheapness'

I think this article kind of misses pointing out that not *all* NAS devices have the capability of providing block-based storage too...

Xiotech forging secret Katana project

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Hardly unique,,,

I believe Dell have had a Hybrid SAS/SSD array out for a while now, in their Equallogic range?