When it comes to enterprise class storage solutions you have a lot of choices out there. Not only are there a plethora of storage manufacturers to choose from, but many storage manufacturers offer a plethora of products from their brand that handle storage in a plethora of different ways. If you were to ask any of these manufacturers if their solution is the one that is right for you I guarantee that the answer wil
The first part of this series focused on what I consider to be the basic building block of all enterprise class storage solutions – the hard drive. In this segment I am going to cover RAID which stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks. The reason why I am focusing on RAID as the next step is because it is the logical combining of individual hard drives into a single virtual drive.
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You are a young go-getter who wants to be in the business of IT. Looking at the market you see that enterprise class storage companies are growing both in sales and product offerings, and you decide to pursue storage technologies as your area of expertise. You dedicate yourself to the pursuit of knowledge on all matters of Storage Area Networks (SANs), Network Attached Storage (NAS), and Storage Virtualization.
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