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To: Gus who wrote (11267)9/26/2000 8:30:21 PM
From: Yamakita  Read Replies (1) of 17183
 
Storage Gets Sensible

The debate is finally off SANs vs. NAS and on to what makes sense for the network

By TERRY SWEENEY

Vendors are fond of painting their customers into an IT corner. For many vendors, particularly start-ups with limited product portfolios, the world is black and white: Buy our product or risk falling behind your competition--or worse. The tack has been used time and again with operating systems, management tools and security products.

One of the more recent sectors for this gamesmanship is storage area networking.

It's been one of the louder debates raging for the last couple of years among vendors of servers, RAID products and Fibre Channel switches. Network attached storage or storage area network? NAS vs. SANs. Which to buy? May the best price point for gigabyte and terabyte capacity win.

Thankfully, IT managers can see past the marketing games and have done what they usually do: Proceed with checkbooks tightly gripped in one hand, and large doses of pragmatism in the other.

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