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Lunar Flare NAS
| USABILITY | B |
| CAPABILITY | B |
| PERFORMANCE | B |
| INTEROPERABILITY | C |
| MANAGEABILITY | B |
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The Lunar Flare stands out in the workgroup and departmental NAS market because of its built-in clustering capabilities. The Lunar Flares performance scales well when more nodes are added to the cluster, but the system can quickly become expensive.
SHORT-TERM BUSINESS IMPACT // The Lunar Flare, with clustering software, is easy to roll out and has almost no impact on end users capabilities.
LONG-TERM BUSINESS IMPACT // The Lunar Flare will provide a low TCO down the road because its very easy to scale, and its impressive clustering capabilities ensure fault tolerance.
Robust clustering capabilities; easy to set up and manage; scalable.
Supports only CIFS; lacks user storage quotas.
Tricord Systems Inc., Plymouth, Minn.; (800) 874-2673; www.tricord.com