unified storage Last modified: Tuesday, August 29, 2006
A single, integrated storage infrastructure that functions as unification engines to simultaneously support Fibre Channel, IP Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) data formats. Also called network unified storage (NUS).
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