Disaster Recovery Journal Summer 2025

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a backup targe, or host hypervi sors or performance-sensitive workloads. More NAS solu tions handle two or more of these workloads concurrently. NAS’s widespread adoption coupled with organizations using NAS to host more work loads have prompted providers to improve NAS’s features. New availability, hardware, and performance features rep resent significant advances in NAS solutions. NAS’s popularity in orga nizations makes it a target for bad actors. Hackers recognize that nearly every organization uses NAS and accesses NAS over common network file pro tocols. As more organizations store sensitive data on NAS, compromising and/or copy ing this data during an attack becomes probably. To counter these threats, providers have strengthened their respective NAS solution’s cybersecurity and data protection capabili ties. Highly Available, Capacity Packed, and ‘Flashy’ DCIG recently evaluated more than 40 different NAS solutions intended for use by

NAS Solutions Ramp Up to Take on Today’s Enterprise Workloads By JEROME WENDT V iewing network attached storage (NAS) in the same context as a Swiss army knife may reso nate with many organizations. Organizations initially adopted However, organizations now often utilize NAS solutions to host multiple other workloads. Not Just for File Services Anymore NAS solutions may serve as NAS solutions due to their ease of set up, deployment, and management. These fea tures have led to NAS’s broad adoption with currently more than 80% of organizations using NAS for file services.

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