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| NeoPath' Network File Management Solution earns top marks NeoPath Networks, a leading provider of network file management (NFM) solutions, announced today that File Director, its flagship offering, has earned the strong endorsement of the Taneja Group, a technology analyst firm specializing in storage technologies. The firm conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the File Director's network-attached storage (NAS) tiering and migration capabilities, the results of which are in a report released today and available athttp://www.neopathnetworks.com/taneja_fdreview.pdf. The industry's most advanced NFM solution designed for tiered storage environments, File Director enables organizations to reduce their operational and administrative costs, improve capacity utilization, and accelerate the return on their IT investment. "We were extremely impressed with all aspects of our testing and found that File Director achieves all the key NFM and NAS virtualization functionality in a scalable and robust fashion, " said Brad O'Neill, senior analyst and consultant, Taneja Group. O'Neill, who authored the report, is attributed with defining the NFM category more than a year ago. According to the Taneja Group report, network file management as an approach to NAS virtualization is gaining a high degree of market attention, and understanding NFM is the key to significantly improved NAS management for a wide range of medium and large enterprises. The Taneja Group thoroughly tested the migration capabilities of File Director in a heterogeneous storage environment. File Director provided fast, low-latency operations for all of the testing scenarios, leading the firm to conclude that "the NeoPath offering is ideally suited for enterprises exploring new solutions to perennial NAS migration and tiering challenges." Furthermore, File Director is an easily deployed and managed solution that -- Is non-disruptive to clients -- Works reliably across heterogeneous NAS systems -- Has a high-performance bulk migration and tiering capability -- Supports simple and sophisticated policy-based migration schema -- Seamlessly supports concurrent access via NFS and CIFS protocols "We are very pleased that File Director earned top performance marks from the Taneja Group, " said Alan Baratz, CEO, NeoPath Networks. "We've developed a best-in-class solution that addresses the demanding challenges of NAS migration and tiering. The Taneja Group has deep experience with all aspects of storage technology, and their strong validation of File Director's performance complements the feedback we're getting from customers who use our solution to slash their storage and administrative costs and simplify the management of their unstructured file data." write your comments about the article :: © 2005 Networking News :: home page |