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Follow on Google News | Top Five Reasons for SMBs to Choose NASWhat is the best storage solution for SMBs facing unpredictable data growth—all while providing adequate data protection and right-now access to critical files for users? NAS or SAN?
By: shopricom.com Affordable, Simple NAS offers affordability of 10GB Ethernet with developments like SCSI over IP (iSCSI). Furthermore, NAS devices communicate over a NFS and CIFS Fibre Channel while SAN devices transmit block-level data over FCP (Fibre Channel Protocol). Nearly any IT administer can make connects over a LAN or WAN to the NAS data files. With SANs, users are limited to servers using SCSI Fibre connectivity, while NAS configurations offer wider data file sharing over both Windows and Unix operating systems. NAS should be connected in the network where sufficient bandwidth supports the traffic generated by high data volume. NAS is an ideal solution for file centralization amongst corporate users, but for most midsize to enterprise companies running disk-intensive applications and that want enterprise-wide storage centralization for their campus environment, a SAN is the solution. Here are my Top 5 reasons NAS is the right choice for SMBs 1. Lower- a. Leverage existing investment in Ethernet. 10Gb Ethernet is fast enough for most SMB applications and supports iSCSI. b. In-house IT generalists probably sufficient to administer/manage NAS. 2. iSCSI allows NAS appliances to mimic some SAN-like functionality a. iSCSI has very low infrastructure or hardware requirements. Usually a industry-standard gigabit or 10Gb network card and switch will work. This gives many NAS devices the ability to act as an iSCSI SAN. 3. Perform more advanced tasks a. A NAS device works at the file level, while a SAN operates at the block level. For users needing access to files, NAS makes sense. Database and application servers requiring block-level data can be supported with iSCSI SAN solution, as mentioned above. b. Depending upon the file system in use, NAS lets users perform more advanced tasks, such as specify usage quotas, enforce security constraints, perform file indexing, and the other tasks. Your operating system or your NAS appliance's operating system then allows those files to be shared on the network. 4. Purpose- a. NAS appliances are designed for sharing files to networked clients. But most also offer other features, such as multi-protocol file sharing, some kind of backup support, and rich file management tools like advanced quotas and utilization reporting. For most SMBs, a NAS solution makes perfect sense. 5. Clear growth roadmap for storage a. Virtualization: b. NAS gateways: Users are no longer faced with an either/or situation when deciding what storage technology to choose. NAS gateways are a fairly new breed of device that behave much like SAN-attached file server, but with improved performance and more advanced user management. Usually a NAS gateway will not have any storage, and instead will use your SAN to provide the raw storage space and while intelligently serving files across your network. So when your organization does deploy truly demanding server applications such as large databases, mail servers, and virtualization hosts—you can scale up to a SAN while still utilizing NAS devices. For most SMB needs, I recommend the following NAS systems by HP . You can visit http://www.shopricom.com/ # # # Richard Stasior is a technology industry veteran and owner of RICOM, a technology reseller, integrator and managed services provider based in Irvine, California. For more information about this topic, please visit http://www.shopricom.com End
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