Overland Storage White Paper Sample
"Organizations such as retail chains, schools,
hospitals, insurance companies, and many other
businesses with remote locations face unique
challenges when it comes to a storage solution.
Provisioning multiple sites with storage to meet the
local needs of each location, while ensuring that the
storage can be managed and protected from a
central site, requires a comprehensive approach with
a scalable storage solution"...
"This paper discusses the top considerations storage
administrators need to keep in mind when selecting
and installing such a Distributed NAS solution"...
"Assume that your company has multiple remote
sites, each of which required NAS storage. The
storage will be used by a heterogeneous network of
computers running a variety of operating systems
including Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, VMware, and
UNIX. The sites are connected by VPNs over the
Internet. The remote sites have little or no IT
personnel, so the Distributed NAS system must be
capable of running continuously and reliably, while
administration and data protection takes place at the
central office"...