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Practical buying and strategic advice for IT managers and decision makers
Buyer’s guide
Network attached storage (NAS) appliances are the perfect solution for growing businesses facing a storage crisis. They offer a high-capacity and cost-effective solution that provides teams with fast local access to data and can grow as demand increases.
Cloud storage is a natural contender for these duties but, once you take into account the regular monthly fees, such services can become expensive over the long term – especially if you’re using them to store increasingly large amounts of data. It’s true that NAS appliances represent a much higher initial spend, but ongoing