text: 06 March, 2002 12:48
  The story begins with Chris, an IT manager who is faced with a self-proliferating storage environment (storage is cheap and everyone wanted more of their own) and no additional headcount to manage it. He hears from a friend that NAS is the way to go. "Consolidate your users' files onto one storage system. This gives you just one entity to manage, back up, and add more storage to," the friend said. This made sense to Chris. One centralized storage system would be much easier to manage and protect than many desktop systems.