Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems and file servers were the foundation of collaboration in the 90’s. These storage systems primarily served the needs of users that needed to share files for projects. In the 2000’s NAS systems found a lease on life by providing storage to virtualized environments like VMware and Xen. But in 2016 the NAS is showing its age. The primary creator of data is now sensors and devices. These machine-generated data capacity requirements far outstrips human capabilities. In addition, users are different in 2016. They are mobile and have more than one system they use to get work done.
A challenger to NAS is object storage, which promises more cost effective scaling while maintaining more consistent performance. And now object storage has addressed many of its roadblocks; providing traditional file protocol access and improved file handling performance. Your next NAS refresh might be to an object storage system.
Join Storage Switzerland’s Founder George Crump and Caringo’s VP of Products Tony Barbagallo for this on demand webinar. They compare NAS and object storage and provide 10 reasons why we think object storage will be the file server of the future for the enterprise. This webinar will give you the education you need to determine if your enterprise can benefit from object storage.
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George Crump is the Chief Marketing Officer at VergeIO, the leader in Ultraconverged Infrastructure. Prior to VergeIO he was Chief Product Strategist at StorONE. Before assuming roles with innovative technology vendors, George spent almost 14 years as the founder and lead analyst at Storage Switzerland. In his spare time, he continues to write blogs on Storage Switzerland to educate IT professionals on all aspects of data center storage. He is the primary contributor to Storage Switzerland and is a heavily sought-after public speaker. With over 30 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US, he has seen the birth of such technologies as RAID, NAS, SAN, Virtualization, Cloud, and Enterprise Flash. Before founding Storage Switzerland, he was CTO at one of the nation's largest storage integrators, where he was in charge of technology testing, integration, and product selection.
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