Is It Time to Modernize NAS?

Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems are the cornerstone of most organization’s storage architectures. For decades they’ve replaced legacy Windows or Linux file servers to provide SMB and NFS access from a single system that can support many more users. But NAS systems now fall short in a variety of ways. First, they have very little data intelligence, meaning that can’t identify old data and move it to a storage device designed for cost effective, long term preservation. Second, they assume that users are still accessing data like they did a decade ago, from a single location and single system. Today’s users work from multiple offices, locations and devices.
The time has come to modernize NAS so that it meets the realities of data growth, the demands for data retention and the mobility of the modern workforce. Watch me, George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland for this ChalkTalk Video on how to modernize NAS.

To learn more watch our on demand webinar “Storage Refresh? 3 Capabilities Primary Storage Must Have (but probably doesn’t)“. Registrants to the webinar will receive a copy of a white paper written by Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst, Curtis Preston, “Is it Time to Reboot Primary Storage?”

About George Crump

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.