NAS Solutions
Network Attached Storage was developed to address problems with direct attached storage (DAS), which included the effort required to administer, and the lack of scalability, reliability, availability, and performance. NAS offers significant ease of use, providing heterogeneous data sharing and helping organizations automate and simplify their data management.
The IBM® System Storage N series products are designed to provide network attached storage for storage environments where customers have a need for storing mission-critical data, near-line storage, and WORM-protected data in high-availability, high-capacity, and highly secure environments. All N series systems utilize a single operating system across the entire platform. The N series products provide a wide range of network attachment capabilities to a broad range of host and client systems. These products use a multitude of network access protocols, including file system protocols (CIFS, NFS, HTTP, FTP) and block I/O protocols (iSCSI and FCP).
