Study Says Both Cloud and NAS Appeal to SMBs - Small Business Computing

Study Says Both Cloud and NAS Appeal to SMBs

May 27, 2011
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Network attached storage (NAS) offers small business an affordable way to share files, backup data, and access their data remotely. And a recent study shows that 70 percent of small businesses that use cloud-based storage also use NAS. The combination of the two technologies gives SMBs a lot of flexibility and data security.

A recent study from market intelligence firm In-Stat lays out the potential growth of the small business NAS market and how adopting NAS can benefit small businesses.



In its first survey report covering the network-attached storage (NAS) marketplace for small and medium-sized business (SMB), analyst firm In-Stat this week said research data shows that seven out of ten SMBs that use cloud-based storage also use NAS.


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