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Networked Storage Overview

Many small businesses are looking to leverage advanced database technology to power a

range of e-business and on-demand business applications. This range of applications is

driving tremendous demand for storage capacity and information management, straining

networking resources and IT budgets within the small business environment.

Linksys is ideally positioned to address these challenges with a line of business grade

Network Storage Systems (NSS) that bring a robust Network Attached Storage (NAS)

solution within reach of today’s budget minded businesses. The Linksys NSS is specifically

designed to offer businesses easy to use, flexible, cost-effective storage solutions that keep

pace with business growth and that reduce the total cost of doing business.

Storage Solution

The key design consideration for a storage solution is that it should accommodate the

business’ applications. The application and data management needs of most SMB IT

environments are typically served by a NAS approach. Accordingly, the storage architecture

in this white paper describes a NAS storage solution.

The reference NAS solution architecture enables (Figure 1):

• Secure data sharing in a LAN environment with storage centralization

• Virtualization across multiple NSS devices; and

• Secure remote storage backup options for “offsite” backups

These capabilities enable the business to deploy a more scalable, reliable storage solution and

backup environment at lower cost.

Figure 1: NAS Topology

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