New Q&A Examines the Level of Interest in Using NAS and For What Purpose within Small Businesses.

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c41393) has announced the addition of Likely Usage Scenarios for New Small Business NAS Buyers to their offering.

1000 small businesses - approximately 500 have a dedicated (non-PC) server and 500 do not. In order to be eligible for the survey, all respondents were required to have a network and no more than a total of twenty desktop and laptop PCs.

Question(s): Would small business NAS be used primarily for backup or archiving or would it be used as a file server, storing actively-used and created files?

Analysis: There are a number of different types of storage solutions that enable you to back-up and store files to a single, dedicated network-attached device. This device would be connected to your business's network and separate from the PCs. Such devices are commonly referred to as "network-attached storage" solutions. While such solutions provide many of the functions of a dedicated server at a significantly lower cost, it has remained unclear as to how small businesses would actually use these devices.

Specifically, this Q&A examines the level of interest in using NAS and for what purpose.

Contents Include:

1.0 Small Business Interest in Network-Attached Storage

1.1 As a Backup Solution

1.2 As an Archival Storage Solution

1.3 As a Secondary File Server

1.4 As a Central File Server

2.0 Key Insights and Final Thoughts

Appendix and Methodology

List of Figures:

Figure 1. Interest in Using NAS as a Backup Solution

Figure 2. Interest in Using NAS for Archival Storage

Figure 3. Interest in Using NAS as a Secondary File Server

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