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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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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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Virtual Servers Need Virtual Storage
By :Dell EqualLogic Published Date: Jan 24, 2008
Consolidation is a common trend in many IT environments, providing benefits such as improved hardware resource utilization, easier management, and lower costs. For storage, consolidation is accomplished by moving data off of direct attached storage (DAS) inside the server onto a shared pool of storage in a storage area network (SAN).
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Dell EqualLogic
Virtualized iSCSI SANs: Flexible, Scalable Enterprise Storage for Virtual Infrastructures
By :Dell EqualLogic Published Date: Mar 03, 2008
Historically, the adoption of storage virtualization technologies in SAN environments has been limited, primarily to enterprise data centers needing a tool for online data migration between heterogeneous storage environments. However, this is no longer the case and virtualized iSCSI SANs make it drastically easier to deploy, manage and build a virtualized enterprise storage infrastructure.
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Dell EqualLogic
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
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
Intelligent Platform for File Services: Titan 3000 Series
By :BlueArc Corporation Published Date: Jan 18, 2008
BlueArc’s Titan 3000 Series is designed to meet the requirements of today’s sophisticated enterprise data centers and vertical applications with new levels of storage performance, scalability and reliability. Titan is the first storage solution that consolidates and manages up to 4 petabytes of data in a single storage pool.
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BlueArc Corporation
Kane County Streamlines IT with EqualLogic and VMware
By :Dell EqualLogic Published Date: Jan 18, 2008
Kane County is the fourth-largest County in Illinois and one of the fastest growing in the United States. Their IT department's goal was to eliminate the mainframe environment and put the county on the leading edge of technology – but budget constraints necessitated creativity to meet IT needs without dramatic cost increases. They decided that server virtualization and a storage area network (SAN) were the answers.
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Dell EqualLogic
LeftHand Networks Virtual SAN Appliance for VMware ESX
By :LeftHand Networks Published Date: Feb 21, 2008
LeftHand’s Virtual SAN Appliance for VMware is the industry’s first fullfeatured, virtual iSCSI SAN. A virtual SAN is ideal for customers who are looking to realize the benefits of advanced server virtualization in data centers and remote offices where physical SAN deployment is inhibited by space and/or budget constraints. Download this data sheet for more information.
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LeftHand Networks
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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Synchronizing Business and IT to Capitalize on Change
By :HP Published Date: Aug 15, 2006
It is not enough to maintain a certain level of IT to run a business. IT has to be a driver of business goals. And that requires a rethinking of IT’s role from maintainer to innovator. All IT management must get this free whitepaper if they want to read how HP offers ideas to transform their enterprises.
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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
The ILM Journey: An HP StorageWorks File System Extender Business
By :HP Published Date: Oct 27, 2005
Download this white paper to read about the discipline known as Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) and to learn how the efficiencies it creates can help you achieve your business goals.
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The Role Of HP StorageWorks 6000 VLS In A Modern Data Protection Stategy
By :HP Published Date: Nov 17, 2005
Download this paper to learn how the HP VLS6000 can offer the best cost per MB/sec in its class. With the advent of lower cost Serial ATA (SATA)-based disk arrays, disk-assisted backup has been making inroads into areas where physical tape drives were once the primary means of data protection.
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The Role of Storage In A Modern Day Data Protection Strategy
By :HP Published Date: Mar 22, 2006
Though disk-assisted backup has been making inroads to areas where physical tape drives were the primary means of data protection, tape will always be the lowest cost storage technology. Click here to read how tape is being used more and more for high-volume data backup, long-term archiving, and the migration of data has already been backed up to disk.
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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
TheInfoPro Study: Why Deduplication Technology is Causing a Paradigm Shift in Storage Tiering
By :Data Domain Published Date: Feb 15, 2008
This recent research paper by TheInfoPro goes in depth as to why deduplication has sustained its #1 position on the TIP Storage Backup and Recovery Technology Heat Index®. 15% of storage organizations have already deployed deduplication technology and 59% of storage organizations are planning to deploy “dedupe” by the end of 2008. Managing storage growth, capacity reporting and planning, and backup management are the top pain points for most storage organizations.
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Data Domain
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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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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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
A New Look at Storage Consolidation
By :Creekpath Published Date: Dec 20, 2005
"Storage consolidation" is a term that has typically meant the consolidation of direct attached storage to a storage network, whether it is Network Attached Storage (NAS) or Storage Area Network (SAN). Consolidation has usually been undertaken to improve utilization of assets, lower the total cost of ownership (TCO), increase return on capital investment, improve IT operational efficiency and increase service levels.
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