Product Description - Cisco FS Family of Integrated NAS Devices
The Cisco FS Family of Integrated NAS devices are proving to be extremely useful for business enterprises. They are providing business enterprises with high-performance and scalable solutions for centralizing corporate file storage resources. The Cisco FS Family of Integrated NAS devices is powered by Cisco Wide Area File Services software, thus helping customers to consolidate not only data center and campus file storage resources, but also remote office and branch office file storage infrastructure. As a result, from a single vendor enterprise-wide consolidation can be done without any hazard. The Cisco FS Family provides an easy-to-deploy, single-box solution that supports various file access protocols like Common Internet File System, Network File System, File Transfer Protocol and block-level storage-access protocols such as Small Computer System Interface over IP. The Cisco FS Family currently consists of the Cisco FS 5500 Series Integrated NAS and Cisco FS 5700 Series Integrated NAS devices, which are highly flexible, providing various services over the network like database service, e-mail, multimedia and video, personal user storage facility etc. Cisco FS Family of Integrated NAS devices are of low cost having high availability. When data from multiple locations are consolidated into a single NAS environment, high availability is critical. These NAS Devices are very cost-effective, although providing superior performance.
