Managing growing storage environments, both in terms of new deployments and capacity growth for installed systems, is undisputedly one of the most challenging problems facing network administrators today. In fact, IDC estimates that overall corporate storage needs are increasing across all industries at an annual CAGR of 100 percent. This paper addresses options available for adding storage capacity -?C in particular, server-captured storage (SCS), direct-attached storage (DAS), and network-attached storage (NAS). It compares these options with Tricord'' Lunar Flare(TM) NAS appliance, which is aggregated into a cluster and managed as a single resource. (2001)