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NetFORCE Network Attached Data Server: NAS Appliances for Enterprise Networks

Overview Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliances such as Procom’s NetFORCE 3000 filers operate as dedicated data servers, offloading file I/O from general-purpose servers to greatly improve network file access and overall network speeds. Additionally, the NetFORCE 3000 series enables cross platform file sharing for UNIX and Windows NT environments. This paper provides an overview of the NAS appliance market, the applications where this technology fits, and a detailed discussion of the hardware and software architectures of the Net-FORCE 3000 series, the latest in Procom’s full line of NAS server appliances.

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Publisher	Procom Technology, Inc.	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	September 2001	Downloads	2
Format	White Papers
Topics	Scalability, Back-up, RAID

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