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Network Attached Storage Servers (NAS Storage)
Network Attached Storage (NAS) Servers are the easiest and most cost effective way of adding Storage to your network. If you need to increase the available Storage
on your network without the cost implications of deploying a traditional File Server, Broadberry Data Systems offer a range of products that can be attached quickly and directly to your
Ethernet network to provide significant additional disk capacity at a very competitive price.
Broadberry provide a range of Network Attached Storage Servers (NAS Storage Servers), scaling from entry level 1U rackmount units based on Serial ATA (SATA) technology
with 1TB (Terabyte) through 2TB capacities, to fully redundant NAS Storage Servers incorporating a choice of hardware RAID levels including RAID
level 0, 1 (10), 5, 6 and JBOD, dual gigabit Ethernet connectivity and a range of sizes up to 12TB (Terabyte) all using hot swap SATA hard drives.
In most cases, NAS Storage Servers are designed for a single purpose – to store and share large volumes of files over a local area network – regardless
of the file system and operating system used by your Client PCs. These include Windows, Unix, Linux, NetWare and Macintosh Clients. Users can
access files held in personal and shared directories on the NAS Server in the same way they do on a normal Windows or Unix Server, with similar
security and permissions. And unlike general purpose file servers, client license fees are not required, reducing cost of ownership as your network
grows.
Typically NAS Storage Servers do not actually host Networked Applications in the way a normal Server would, as they use an embedded operating
system compiled specifically for use on the NAS Server. The NAS storage servers are designed to install without interrupting your network configuration,
and can be up and running very quickly. 
NAS Storage Servers using Windows Storage Server 2003
Windows Storage Server 2003 is a Network Attached Storage (NAS) operating system, built upon the Windows Server 2003 operating system. Windows
Storage Server 2003 lets original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) build appliances optimised for file serving, since applications unnecessary
to the file serving and storage tasks are not activated.
Storage Server NAS devices are headless (without monitor, keyboard or mouse) and can be managed through a Web-based user interface. Designed
for ease of deployment and seamless integration into the existing network, Windows Storage Server 2003 can provide expanded storage capacity
to users on the network in less than 15 minutes.
The Storage Server NAS solution is especially appropriate for organizations that do not want to put expensive IT resources into setting up
multiple file servers and managing them.
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NAS Storage Servers using Open-E
Open-E Storage Open-E NAS is a professional NAS-Software (Network Attached Storage) for building NAS RAID systems for performance and data
security. Thanks to its simple architecture - in principle, Open-E is a flash memory with IDE interface and Open-E NAS as operating system -
you can add storage quickly, easily and, most importantly, cost-efficiently to your existing network.
Open-E NAS 2.0 supports all network clients
- Microsoft, Apple, Netware and UNIX/ Linux. Open-E has features like Open LDAP in which users and groups can be defined and shared across multiple
machines and multiple applications. Multiple Open-E based NAS systems can be configured as the "Open-E
NAS Server Farm" and be managed centrally. Another professional feature of Open-E NAS is the snapshot function, which enables backup of
data with full data access for the clients.
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