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In the early 1980s, remote file access across UNIX machines was demonstrated by Brian Randell and colleagues at Newcastle University. Novell then released NetWare in 1983, followed by Sun Microsystems releasing NFS in 1984 which allowed network servers to share storage with clients. Inspired by Novell, IBM, and Sun, several firms developed dedicated file servers, with 3Com and Auspex Systems among the first to build dedicated NAS devices for desktop operating systems and UNIX markets, respectively. This started the proprietary NAS device market now led by NetApp and EMC Celerra. In the early 2000s, startups emerged offering clustered NAS alternatives to single filer solutions. In 2009, NAS vendors began introducing integrated online backup solutions

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Naaaas

In the early 1980s, remote file access across UNIX machines was demonstrated by Brian Randell and colleagues at Newcastle University. Novell then released NetWare in 1983, followed by Sun Microsystems releasing NFS in 1984 which allowed network servers to share storage with clients. Inspired by Novell, IBM, and Sun, several firms developed dedicated file servers, with 3Com and Auspex Systems among the first to build dedicated NAS devices for desktop operating systems and UNIX markets, respectively. This started the proprietary NAS device market now led by NetApp and EMC Celerra. In the early 2000s, startups emerged offering clustered NAS alternatives to single filer solutions. In 2009, NAS vendors began introducing integrated online backup solutions

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In the early 1980s, the "Newcastle Connection" by Brian Randell and his colleagues at Newcastle

University demonstrated and developed remote file access across a set of UNIX
machines.[5][6] Novell's NetWare server operating system and NCP protocol was released in 1983. Following the
Newcastle Connection, Sun Microsystems' 1984 release of NFSallowed network servers to share their storage
space with networked clients. 3Com and Microsoft would develop the LAN Manager software and protocol to further
this new market. 3Com's 3Server and 3+Sharesoftware was the first purpose-built server (including proprietary
hardware, software, and multiple disks) for open systems servers.
Inspired by the success of file servers from Novell, IBM, and Sun, several firms developed dedicated file servers.
While 3Com was among the first firms to build a dedicated NAS for desktop operating systems, Auspex
Systems was one of the first to develop a dedicated NFS server for use in the UNIX market. A group of Auspex
engineers split away in the early 1990s to create the integrated NetApp filer, which supported both the Windows
CIFS and the UNIX NFS protocols, and had superior scalability and ease of deployment. This started the market
for proprietaryNAS devices now led by NetApp and EMC Celerra.
Starting in the early 2000s, a series of startups emerged offering alternative solutions to single filer solutions in the
form of clustered NAS Spinnaker Networks (acquired by NetApp in February 2004), Exanet (acquired by Dell in
February 2010), Gluster(acquired by RedHat in 2011), ONStor (acquired by LSI in 2009), IBRIX (acquired
by HP), Isilon (acquired by EMC November 2010), PolyServe (acquired by HP in 2007), and Panasas, to name a
few.
In 2009, NAS vendors (notably CTERA Networks[7][8]and NETGEAR) began to introduce online backupsolutions
integrated in their NAS appliances, for online disaster recovery.[9][10]

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