Q&A: Charles Stevens, Microsoft Enterprise Storage
InternetNews | at | by Mike
When folks think of storage software, often times the first names that come to mind might be Veritas, HP, IBM, or even EMC these days. But Microsoft? Well, it's true. The Redmond, Wash. software giant has been gaining momentum in a niche of the storage software market known as NAS, or network-attached storage.
NAS is hard disk storage that is set up with its own network address rather than being attached to the department computer that is serving applications to a network's workstation users. By moving storage, which more often than not takes up a lot of space, off of the department server and onto the local area network, applications and files can be piped from one location to the next because they are not competing for the same resources.