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Storage Area Networks (SANs) and the
The SAN world today is a very complex association of hardware and software
You will also read about managing the SAN. SAN management software is the initial software application that will lead to many other value-added services that will add intelligence to the SAN. SAN backup and restore is also discussed. This is the initial solution that is a harbinger of myriad solutions that will begin to appear as a result of the added functionalities and capabilities that SAN architecture and SAN technologies uniquely enable.
This book is a
Charles Trentacosti, Marketing Manager
Hewlett-Packard s Software and SAN Management Operation
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Information Technology requirements change every day, but one requirement that hasn t changed since the inception of data processing is the demand for fast, reliable, and massive data storage. Economic trends in the 1990s ”such as the rapid development of e-commerce, the globalization of business, and the mergers of already-giant corporations ”have only escalated the demand.
Traditional data storage methods cannot keep pace with the demands placed on them. Enterprises require more information, delivered faster, and with complete reliability ”and traditional
The Storage Area Network (SAN) is the newest concept and technology for providing fast and reliable mass storage. The SAN meets today s need to store
The SAN exhibits a flexibility for expansion and performance improvement that is typically referred to as scalability, but that word too often limits our thinking to
That descriptor is modularity. In
Future Shock
, Alvin Toffler called for modularity as a method of dealing with and surviving rapid change. Individual
To be sure, the SAN is scalable. It can accommodate a large number of devices and store great
The Storage Area Network is
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