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The UnAppliance Provides Higher Performance, Lower Cost File Serving

Overview The PolyServe File Serving solution is software that allows a customer to leverage the volume economics of industry-standard servers and storage and couple those components into a single high-performance file serving system. At its core, the PolyServe File Serving solution integrates Network File System (NFS) functionality or Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol with a true symmetric cluster file system, high-availability services and cluster and storage management capabilities. The product aggregates up to 16 low-cost Linux-based servers for high-performance, fault-tolerant file serving across a SAN. Shared data and management capabilities ease IT administration by enabling servers and storage to be managed as one.

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Publisher	PolyServe	File Format	PDF
Date Published	March 2005	Downloads	1
Format	White Papers
Topics	File and Network Servers, Linux - Open Source, NAS

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