For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals (Length: 16 pages)

April 14, 2008

Market Overview: File-Based Storage

NAS Offerings And Other Approaches To Address An Avalanche Of Files

by Andrew Reichman

with Stephanie Balaouras, Rachel A. Dines


Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

Firms must store more and more file data as users generate more office documents and create more rich digital content such as photos, audio files, and video files, and as applications do more with these and other forms of file-based content. With increasing recognition of the business value of file data, firms are working to consolidate their file storage infrastructures to reduce overall costs and to improve the ability to protect and share all this data. There are a number of approaches to building a file storage infrastructure that offer a wide range of performance and cost levels; this report describes the different approaches and identifies the major vendor offerings.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

NOTES & RESOURCES

itemThere Are Five Main Use Cases For File-Based Storage

itemFile-Based Storage Architectures

itemTier Your File-Based Storage

itemCurrent Market Offerings

recommendations

itemDefine Requirements By Use Case Before Selecting A File Storage Option

Forrester interviewed 12 vendor and end user companies, including Compellent, Dell, EMC, HP, IBRIX, Isilon Systems, Microsoft, NetApp, ONStor, Panasas, Pillar Data Systems, and Sun Microsystems.

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Analyst: Andrew Reichman
Technology: Storage & Data Management, Storage Hardware, Storage Management, Storage Networking
Geography: Asia Pacific, Europe, North America

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