The storage industry is angry at the decision and said Microsoft is forcibly trying to move all its customers from using NAS to Storage Attached Networks (SAN) because of a weakness in its own strategy.
EMC and HDS, in contrast, have storage systems that store data on disk arrays that appear to computers like a single mammoth hard drive, an approach that's better for storing information in databases.
The Network-attached Storage (NAS) market posted a weaker 4 per cent sequential growth. In the overall network storage market, which includes both SAN and NAS, EMC held the top spot, with 28 per cent market share.
The poll of 100 storage users found none will be consolidating their architecture simply around storage area network (SAN), networked attached storage (NAS) or older-style direct-attached storage (DAS) topologies.
The Iomega NAS Backup product combines an Iomega network-attached storage (NAS) server with storage and security management software from Computer Associates. That compares with market share of 47 per cent for storage area network (SAN) gear and 42...
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