The lines between network attached storage (NAS) and storage area networks (SAN) will become blurred and soon there will be very little difference between the two according to Network Appliance. This bold claim is based on the fact that the first...
IBM, for example, claims to have put AIX ahead of Sun Microsystems' Solaris and HP's HP-UX systems, by making 64-bit Java technology available on its AIX 5L Unix operating system. However, we believe the result will be about 80 per cent HP, trying...
The NAS (network attached storage) outfit will be introducing a disk-based back-up and archiving appliance, called NearStore R100. Network Appliance has developed a first of its kind NAS/SAN software named Snap Manager for Exchange 2000.
Network Appliance specialises in network-attached storage (NAS), essentially high-end computers that can store files such as email. And HDS won't sell NetApp's new combination SAN-NAS device, he added.
When you have somebody like NetApp that is so well known in the NAS (Network-Attached Storage) market they also bring a lot of credibility. NetApp's initial goal, though, is not to replace Fibre Channel, but rather to offer a cheaper way for...
Solaris competes with Microsoft's Windows and with Unix variants such as IBM's AIX and Hewlett-Packard's HP-UX. But Linux is a particular thorn in Sun's side: It runs on inexpensive x86 servers like Windows does, but it employs the Unix style and...