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Strategies & Market Trends : Gorilla and King Portfolio Candidates

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To: JRH who wrote (2427)6/2/1999 4:23:00 PM
From: DownSouth  Read Replies (1) of 54805
 
The downside to this method is that if your network is slow, your access to the files will likewise be slow.

The NTAP filers (NAS) attache to any point in the network. At ISPs the filers are attached to the fiber optic ring(s) in the computer room. So the speed of the backbone has no effect on the ability of the application servers (web servers, database servers, etc) to access data through the in-house network.

Other advanatages over SAN:
1. No operating system (UNIX or NT) to maintain on the filer.
2. Secure access to data by both UNIX and NT applications concurrently (to the same files).
3. No special training of sys admins.
4. 99.999% availability.
5. 30 minunte setup from opening the shipping carton to being operational.

There are many more having to do with vendor support, backup, recovery, and mirroring, but I won't go on.
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