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A Storage Area Network (SAN) is a network designed to attach computer storage devices such as disk array controllers and tape libraries to servers. As of 2006, SANs are most commonly found in enterprise storage. A SAN allows a machine to connect to remote targets such as disks and tape drives on a network for block level I/O.

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Virtualized iSCSI SANs: Flexible, Scalable, Enterprise Storage for Virtual Infrastructures
By : VMware Dell Published Date: Mar 03, 2008
This white paper describes a virtualized infrastructure that applies storage and server virtualization technologies to cost-effectively achieve a flexible, high performance, dynamic IT infrastructure that is simple to manage and scale.
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5 Benefits of IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller Based on Real World Deployments
By : IBM Published Date: Mar 20, 2007
It has become clear that storage virtualization has become a core element of the storage strategy of forward-thinking end users and that the technology is finally delivering the value that it had promised earlier this decade. In this paper by Taneja Group, you'll learn about IBM SAN Volume Controller, its architecture and features, and about 5 tangible benefits of storage virtualization.
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Oracle on NetApp, Part 2: Simplified FC SAN Management
By : NetApp Oracle Published Date: Oct 12, 2007
Learn how NetApp engineers have streamlined Oracle on SAN environments by developing tools that integrate NetApp storage with Oracle RMAN and ASM, any-to-any DR capabilities, and more.
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NetApp Oracle
Oracle on NetApp, Part 3: Why Protocol Should Be Irrelevant
By : NetApp Oracle Published Date: Jan 30, 2008
In the final installment of this special feature, we bring you a case study of Catholic Heathcare West running Oracle on NFS, FC, and iSCSI. CHW believes that unified storage—not a particular storage protocol—is the key thing.
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NetApp Oracle
Storage Management Simplified with Virtualization
By : Creekpath Published Date: Dec 20, 2005
Imagine a world where storage management is simplified; everything works together; there are no configuration issues when upgrading, and vendors all cooperate to allow information to be easily stored and retrieved seamlessly. This was a reality in the mainframe world, but the deployment of open systems shattered these concepts.
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Creekpath
Scalable NAS & SAN Storage Systems Using Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003 R2
By : Sanbolic Published Date: Oct 26, 2007
A Windows-based Storage server can utilize its internal disk drives, or connect to an external storage array, which provides more flexibility for expansion and allows file services to be integrated into an existing SAN.
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Sanbolic
Top 10 Reasons for Using Disk-based Online Server Backup and Recovery
By : Iron Mountain Published Date: Aug 16, 2006
Learn the top ten reasons why SMBs are embracing online server backup and recovery for automatic, continuous backup, reliable server data disaster recovery and freeing limited technical staff for move value-driven tasks.
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Iron Mountain
Top 10 Data Protection Tips for SMBs
By : EMC Insignia Published Date: Aug 01, 2006
The amount of data on business computers has grown astronomically over the past few decades.  If a company loses this data, business grinds to a halt. The following tips can help you select the hardware and software you need to safeguard the integrity of your data, guarantee accurate restores, and manage backups without placing an undue burden on IT personnel.
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EMC Insignia
The Storage Area Network Goes Global
By : Neterion Published Date: Oct 10, 2006
As the demand for bandwidth grows, so does the reach of networks. Users need to access data globally, from multiple locations around the world, quickly and transparently without breaking budgets. Data centers locked into servicing only local users unnecessarily constrain growth and expansion.
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Neterion
TeraCloud Storage Analytics: The Power of Knowledge
By : TeraCloud Published Date: Mar 31, 2006
Storage spawns where it is needed. This leaves IT to manage many islands of storage devices scattered across the enterprise. Compliance requirements, multimedia-rich applications, unstructured content and a proliferation of databases are pushing IT departments to increase the size and complexity of their storage networks. All of this is occurring at a time when the need for centralized storage management has never been greater.
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TeraCloud
Technical Sheet: TeraCloud Storage Framework
By : TeraCloud Published Date: Sep 19, 2007
TSF delivers the first Java-enabled enterprise Storage Resource Management (SRM) solution that simplifies the administration and management of distributed and mainframe storage resources across the entire enterprise, from a single point of control. TSF helps you plan more effectively, lower administration costs, and puts you in control of your storage environment.
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TeraCloud
Using Neterion 10 GbE for Enterprise iSCSI Storage
By : Neterion Published Date: Aug 08, 2006
The relentless growth of data and network-intensive applications such as digital imaging, multimedia content, and broadcast/video continues to drive volumes of enterprise data and network traffic. As growth continues, IT managers are challenged with implementing solutions without interrupting critical business processes.
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Neterion
Use of Efficient Data Storage Increases Revenue
By : Xiotech Published Date: Feb 27, 2007
Data keeps growing with no signs of stopping. An effective storage solution seamlessly scales to meet an organization’s growing appetite for capacity, while ensuring availability and fast access.  SAN storage should be designed to deliver strong top-end performance so throughput does not degrade as storage needs scale higher.
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Xiotech
UT Health Science Center at Houston Safeguards Personal Health Information with NeoScale
By : Neoscale Systems, Inc. Published Date: Sep 07, 2007
The HSC network services group supports more than 2000 desktops, servers and backend systems such as e-mail, file, networking, application and storage services for general administration, dental and medical schools. HSC wanted to manage and reduce HIPAA compliance costs and processes associated with protecting PHI data within its storage infrastructure – a legacy SAN environment with evolving applications.
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Neoscale Systems, Inc.
Virtual Tape Libraries Without Complexity
By : Spectra Logic Published Date: Apr 27, 2006
Disk in the form of - that is, disk presented as tape - can be added without requiring huge changes to existing backup strategies. This is more straightforward than adding disk into an existing environment, because adding disk without the VTL interface requires complex and unavoidable changes to existing strategies.
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Spectra Logic
Building High Performance iSCSI SAN Configurations
By : Alacritech Published Date: Nov 28, 2005
IP storage using Internet SCSI (iSCSI) provides opportunity for many organizations looking to extend existing Fibre Channel SANs to stranded servers, or looking to deploy Ethernet-based SANs. It can reduce costs by allowing IT managers to take advantage of existing, familiar Ethernet networks. Often the biggest complaint white new technology like iSCSI is its ability to provide more than simple functionality and connectivity.
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Alacritech
Breaking Through the Dissimilar Hardware Challenge
By : Symantec Published Date: Aug 30, 2006
IT administrators need to minimize downtime for critical IT services by rapidly recovering entire systems to dissimilar hardware platforms or virtual environments. Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery Server Edition combines the speed and reliability of disk-based, bare-metal Windows system recovery with dissimilar hardware restoration and lights-out operation.
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Symantec
Building A Virtual SAN Using VMware ESX Internal Storage
By : LeftHand Networks Published Date: Oct 31, 2007
To derive maximal benefit from system virtualization, storage virtualization, as implemented in a SAN, is a necessary prerequisite. The mobility of a virtual machine (VM) and its data plays an important role in daily operational tasks from load balancing with VMotion™ and VMware Distributed Resource Manager (DRS) to system testing. The issues of availability and mobility really rise to the forefront in a disaster recovery scenario.
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LeftHand Networks
Curb the Data Chaos: Download Top Ten Tips for Stepping Up to SAN
By : EMC Insignia Published Date: Aug 01, 2006
EMC, the world leader in storage and IT management, developed these Top 10 Tips for SMBs considering stepping up to SAN. The following tips can help you make informed decisions when selecting the hardware and technologies that you use.
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EMC Insignia
Centrally Manage SAN Storage Configuration and Assignment for Microsoft Windows Servers
By : Sanbolic Published Date: Oct 23, 2007
Clustered volume manager enables administrators to centrally configure and assign storage assets in a SAN storage environment in Microsoft System Management Server 2003 and Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 environments.
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Sanbolic
Charlotte County Finds An Ideal Business Continuity Solution
By : LeftHand Networks Published Date: Dec 14, 2007
Located in Southwestern Florida, Charlotte County has a population of nearly 150,000 people. The local government of Charlotte County is responsible for handling everything from planning & zoning, to permitting & licensing for this population. Charlotte County found an ideal business continuity solution by combining VMware Infrastructure 3 with LeftHand Network’s multisite SAN architecture.
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LeftHand Networks
Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape Backups with EMC Insignia Solution for Data Protection
By : EMC Insignia Published Date: Sep 08, 2006
By utilizing the speed and reliability of the EMC CLARiiON® AX150 networked storage system and the convenience of EMC Retrospect® 7.5 for Windows backup and recovery software, SMBs can implement fast, effective, reliable data protection that is easy to set up and manage without placing undue strain on IT resources.
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EMC Insignia
Enabling Cost Effective Global Enterprise Storage Area Networks Using 10 Gigabit Ethernet
By : Neterion Published Date: Apr 13, 2006
The demands on Storage Area Networks (SANs) go far beyond where they were only a few years ago. It is no longer good enough to just provide a large pool of scalable storage with good performance.
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Neterion
Enabling Virtualization in the Datacenter
By : Neterion Published Date: Apr 19, 2006
Virtualization is a key strategy for simplifying deployment of IT resources and maximizing their utilization. Specifically, virtualization refers to the concept of abstracting physical resources such as compute cycles, data storage, and network bandwidth, and then provisioning and sharing these resources amongst multiple applications.
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Neterion
Evaluating a Storage Security Solution
By : Decru Published Date: Dec 01, 2006
Company data is vulnerable to threats from - insiders, unauthorized access to data, data backup, off-site mirroring - just to name a few. Encrypting data at rest, on tape or disk, significantly mitigates these threats. This document provides guidance into some of the factors a company should consider when evaluating storage security technology and solutions.
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