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Introduction

The need for shared storage is becoming a lot more prevalent than in the past. A storage

solution can affect many different aspects of the business including revenue and profitability,

growth and expansion rates, employee and IT staff productivity, customer experience and

satisfaction and capital and operating expenses. A major challenge for today’s business is

how to manage storage growth while ensuring data availability and business continuance.

Storing and backing up important data typically requires more than a consumer storage

solution. Yet a

major challenge for storage deployments is the complexity that arises from

provisioning, maintaining, and managing complex storage environments. Different

applications have varying storage needs, and this has resulted in the proliferation of

multiple, independent types of data storage. The associated capital and operational costs can

strain administrative staff and IT budgets.

This white paper discusses the unique benefits that Linksys brings to network attached

storage (NAS) solutions. It also provides a solution architecture based on Linksys Network

Storage System (NSS)

for a business to store, backup, share and archive critical company or

customer information on an on-going basis.

Audience

This publication is intended to provide guidance to Linksys customers, Value Added

Resellers (VARs), Linksys network design engineers and network managers.

Scope

This white paper provides network storage solutions for a Small- to Medium-sized business

(SMB) with less than 100 employees, and uses an example set of products from the Linksys

Business Series family. The storage concepts and their underlying technologies covered in

the paper are as follows:

• NAS Storage Consolidation and Virtualization

• RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) controller

• Security

• Backup & Restore

• Performance