Oh My God! Why in the world did it take everyone ages to explain this to me when it took you only five minutes!? Many many thanks indeed for the clarification.!
In the traditional LAN environment what often is the case is servers have data on hard drives inside them. (DAS - Direct Attached Storage) NAS is a half way house between DAS and SAN. Storage capacity can be added without the benefit of SAN by adding to the LAN servers with little operating software and I/O (eg. PCI) capability but still with hard drives onto your LAN. In the most basic form this would be a NAS box - IE a server plugged into your LAN just for the purpose of extra data storage.
Thanks joobi2212, but be aware I made a mischievous comment when I mentioned the switch vendors. I suggested Cisco was the main vendor followed by Brocade. This is wrong, Brocade have the larger market share. (I work for Cisco !)
Extremely bias and misleading information regarding vendors in the FC Switch SAN space! GG quote Switches manly come from Cisco but others are trying to infiltrate the market like Brocade and Q-Logic!
Facts: Brocade in the market for 13yrs+ Vs Cisco only 5yrs. Brocade 68.4% Market share + constant growth revenues/share
Oh My God! Why in the world did it take everyone ages to explain this to me when it took you only five minutes!? Many many thanks indeed for the clarification.!
melgassier 1 year ago
good job thanks
bxblack 1 year ago
Gary, anyways u could help me explain NAS (networrk attached storage?).
joobi2212 2 years ago
In the traditional LAN environment what often is the case is servers have data on hard drives inside them. (DAS - Direct Attached Storage) NAS is a half way house between DAS and SAN. Storage capacity can be added without the benefit of SAN by adding to the LAN servers with little operating software and I/O (eg. PCI) capability but still with hard drives onto your LAN. In the most basic form this would be a NAS box - IE a server plugged into your LAN just for the purpose of extra data storage.
garygray46 2 years ago
Quickest was to explain SAN. Extremly helpful. Thanks a ton
joobi2212 2 years ago
Thanks joobi2212, but be aware I made a mischievous comment when I mentioned the switch vendors. I suggested Cisco was the main vendor followed by Brocade. This is wrong, Brocade have the larger market share. (I work for Cisco !)
garygray46 2 years ago
Extremely bias and misleading information regarding vendors in the FC Switch SAN space! GG quote Switches manly come from Cisco but others are trying to infiltrate the market like Brocade and Q-Logic!
Facts: Brocade in the market for 13yrs+ Vs Cisco only 5yrs. Brocade 68.4% Market share + constant growth revenues/share
Cisco 26.8% Market share constant declining storage revenues/share
MikeJacques1 3 years ago
good point Mike... Mainly Cisco??? They were extremely late to the FC market and seem to have lost interest in FC altogether.
ejroby 3 years ago
Very useful.Thank you
goodrisk 3 years ago
very nice!
subbusarkar 3 years ago
This was very helpful.. thanks !!
naughtynicegal 4 years ago
Even my wife understands this Gary!
penichol 4 years ago