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    ONStor Clustered NAS Gateways
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    Overview
    FreeNAS is an operating system that can be installed on virtually any hardware platform to share data over a network. FreeNAS is the simplest way to create a centralized and easily accessible place for your data. Use FreeNAS with ZFS to protect, store, backup, all of your data. FreeNAS is used everywhere, for the home, small business, and the enterprise.

    ONStor 3000 Series NAS gateway lets you consolidate your unstructured data under a single file management framework over SAN storage of your choice. ONStor 3000 is interoperable with a broad range of enterprise SAN storage arrays from multiple vendors delivering investment protection of your existing storage assets.

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    Morroni Technologies Inc., Creative Integrations
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    Computer Software Company38%
    Media Company25%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    University13%
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    Large Enterprise22%
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    FreeNAS is ranked 9th in NAS with 9 reviews while LSI ONStor Clustered NAS Gateways is ranked 21st in NAS. FreeNAS is rated 8.4, while LSI ONStor Clustered NAS Gateways is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of FreeNAS writes "Open-source with great disk management and task synchronization". On the other hand, FreeNAS is most compared with StarWind Storage Appliance, Dell PowerScale (Isilon), HPE StoreEasy, Qumulo and NetApp FAS Series, whereas LSI ONStor Clustered NAS Gateways is most compared with .

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