Tag: unified storage

What’s next for unified storage? Storage Soup blog by Randy Kerns

By Randy Kerns, Tuesday, March 1st 2011

Analyst Blogs

Unified storage has gone from a specialty item to something offered from nearly every storage vendor in recent years. In the beginning, vendors such as NetApp took added block capability to their file system storage and NetApp’s biggest rivals have...

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Unified or Un-unified? John Webster’s Data-Driven Blog

By John Webster, Monday, October 11th 2010

Analyst Blogs

www.cnet.com/data-driven For years, storage vendors have been offering two types of disk storage: block and file. Block-based storage is commonly associated with SANs (storage area networks) while-file based storage is commonly referred to a NAS (network attached storage) and attached...

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