Survey indicates that NAS virtualization is set to double in 2006 This survey provides statistics on practices for NAS and NAS virtualization. Information is ranked by issues and needs and analyzes trends and acquisition intents. NAS growth has outpaced most predictions and managing a high number of discrete file systems dealing with additions, changes and migrations has proved to be an impossible task. “By creating a single logical view across multiple storage systems, NAS virtualization addresses the scaling, performance, and management problems that plague NAS scalability today,” said Farid Neema, president of Peripheral Concepts. “Our survey shows an enormous interest in virtualization and a great awareness in the benefits of newer offerings” Among the findings of the survey are: • Sites with over five NAS systems represent over 30 percent of the population with NAS • Twenty percent of the sites with more than one TB of disk capacity use some kind of virtualization today and additional 24 percent plan to acquire one in the coming year • Performance is ranked highest in the selection criteria of a NAS product, while scalability is at the top of the features required from a virtualization product • 74 percent want to leverage existing backup and recovery procedures • 69 percent need a NAS virtualization solution that does not require remounting of clients • 79 percent found NAS virtualization ease-of-deployment to be important, with 46% seeing this as very or extremely important. A report based on the results of the survey ‘NAS and NAS Virtualization – A User’s Perspective,’ is available for purchase www.periconcepts or www.tomcoughlin.com. ($2,650)
•Date: 4th Nov 2005 • Region: US/World • Type:
Article •Topic: IT continuity |
