Introduction
The growth of digital data is increasing dramatically as time progresses. According to an
international research institute, eight out of the ten major technology trends in 2014 are
related to the growth of information (diversification and management of mobile devices,
mobile app and traditional application programs, Internet of Things, hybrid cloud and IT as a
service agency, cloud/client architecture, personal cloud era, software-defined everything,
web-scale IT). What can be foreseen is that data growth will become increasingly rapid,
and that relative issues such as data processing performance, big data storage and virtual
storage capacity will soon become challenges we will have to face. Therefore, offering
solutions that are cost-effective and are able to satisfy diverse business needs is a goal
that we must achieve.
The structure of data centers are also changing with trends from physical to virtual
environments and data storage space of hosts changing from traditional DAS to mainly
SAN and NAS. In addition, businesses provide more and more services, and therefore have
different needs for their infrastructure. In response to virtualized environments, we need
to provide applicable solutions for these different needs. This is why QNAP Turbo NAS
provides a complete solution that not only supports different hard drive types, but also
provides iSCSI SAN and NAS services to meet various business needs.
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