Most Important NAS Solution Features
Please rate the importance of the following features and attributes when considering a NAS solution
in general. (Percent of respondents, N=338)
Power and cooling efficiency
34%
41%
Vendor
Space efficiency
Data reduction, i.e., data de-duplication,
compression, etc.
Support for multiple protocols within the same
system (i.e., FC, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS)
Support for multiple drive types within the same
system (i.e., FC, SATA, SAS)
Thin provisioning
7%
31%
45%
16%
8%
30%
46%
16%
8%
29%
Remote replication
18%
44%
26%
49%
26%
49%
23%
17%
Channel
51%
9%
17%
8%
17%
8%
17%
9%
Global namespace
21%
51%
18%
10%
Snapshot (read/write)
21%
50%
20%
9%
Snapshot (read-only)
14%
49%
12%
Media
Flash (solid-state drives)
0%
10%
46%
20%
30%
25%
End User
40%
50%
32%
60%
I would not purchase a NAS system without this attribute
I would strongly prefer a NAS system to include this attribute but would purchase one without it
This attribute is not essential and I would purchase a NAS system without it
Don’t know
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Source: ESG 2008 Enterprise Storage Systems Survey, November 2008.
11%
70%
9%
80%
90%
100%