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Server Clusters: Storage Area Networks
White Papers A storage area network (SAN) is defined as a set of interconnected devices (for example, disks and tapes) and servers that are connected to a common communication and data transfer infrastructure such as Fibre Channel.
[March 24, 2004, 1:23]
SGI Inï¬niteStorage 220: A Pain-Free Path to Storage Area Networks (SANs)
White Papers However, moving from server-based storage to Storage Area Networks (SANs) has typically required the skills of highly specialized IT professionals. No one can dispute the potential benefits, especially in the case of storage, that can be gained...
[August 23, 2007, 1:00]
Subtleties in Tolerating Correlated Failures in Wide-Area Storage Systems
White Papers High availability is widely accepted as an explicit requirement for distributed storage systems. Tolerating correlated failures is a key issue in achieving high availability in today's wide-area environments.
[May 23, 2007, 1:00]
University of Minnesota Selects Cisco Storage Area Network for Scalability, Reliability
White Papers The university selected Cisco MDS 9509 Multilayer directors to consolidate its widely dispersed storage resources onto a single, highly reliable, high-performance storage area network, or SAN. The goal of the university's upgrade project was to...
[June 6, 2006, 0:00]
AMP NETCONNECT: Cabling Systems for Data Centers & Storage Area Networks (SANs)
White Papers Storage Area Networks (SANs) and Storage Service Providers (SSPs) are popping up and are gobbling up server and storage products manufactured by NASDAQ favorites such as EMC and Cisco. As anyone with an ear to the ground of data communications will...
[April 11, 2008, 1:02]
Design and Implementation of a Linux SCSI Target for Storage Area Networks
White Papers This paper describes the architecture of a set of kernel components for developing and testing storage area network transport protocols under Linux. This software is intended for several uses: as a general prototype for network transport protocol...
[April 19, 2007, 1:00]
Secure Group Services for Storage Area Networks
White Papers Storage Area Networks, with their ability to offer high data availability, reliability and scalability, are a promising solution for the large scale storage needs of many enterprises. As with any distributed storage system, a major design challenge...
[August 23, 2007, 1:00]
Norwich Union Targets Improved Storage Data Management and Year-on-Year Savings With a Cisco Storage Area Network
White Papers Norwich Union, the UK's largest insurer, is deploying a Cisco Systems Storage Area Network (SAN) to improve storage management, increase data security and reliability and help reduce overall IT costs.
[November 17, 2007, 0:00]
Modeling and Performance Evaluation of iSCSI Storage Area Networks Over TCP/IP-Based MAN and WAN Networks
White Papers This paper provides a concise modeling and performance evaluation of the iSCSI Storage Area Network (SAN) architecture and protocol. SANs play a key role in business continuity, enterprise-wide storage consolidation and disaster recovery strategies...
[August 23, 2007, 1:00]
Storage Area Management: Business Brief
White Papers This paper highlights the importance of tying the management of storage with the requirements of the business applications that use the storage and the business strategies and processes that depend on those applications.
[January 7, 2005, 2:00]
Kindred Healthcare Increases IT Efficiency With Cisco-Based Storage Area Network
White Papers With the assistance of Cisco Professional Services, the Kindred storage team planned and configured a cost-effective and flexible design to eliminate the existing 26 non-modular switches and consolidate into two new SANs based on Cisco MDS 9509...
[June 6, 2006, 0:00]
Strategic & Financial Justification for Storage Area Networks
White Papers This white paper assists senior managers defining the IT vision of their companies, and gives the necessary strategic and financial justification to make effective decisions regarding storage networking initiatives.
[September 13, 2005, 10:43]
SANmelody Makes Music With Storage Area Networks
White Papers It can perform in IP storage networking and Fibre Channel (FC) SAN environments. SANmelody is software that one can run on a PC/server and it transforms that server and its disks into a 'Disk server' over a network.
[August 18, 2006, 1:00]
Storage Area Networks: An Innovative Approach to Backup and Recovery
White Papers This design uses tape resources poorly but the SAN method enables bulk data transfer from each server to shared SAN storage, while the The result is a fast, scalable, and reliable backup and recovery solution, which uses storage, server, and LAN...
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
Storage Area Networks: The Superior Storage Solution
White Papers This paper discusses the critical factors that are driving the SAN revolution; compares traditional and SAN technologies; presents seven key SAN benefits and how they positively impact business operations; and concludes with an overview of why...
[August 19, 2007, 22:00]
8Gb Delivers Enhanced Storage Area Network (SAN) Data Security
White Papers The modern data center is faced with ever growing demands in the areas of virtualization; power consumption; Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS); security; and manageability. QLogic's 8Gb HBAs address the growing need for SAN...
[September 10, 2008, 0:00]
Best Practices for Replication of Oracle Storage Area Networks White Paper
White Papers Data recovery and protection are the top most priorities of business today and essential elements of any business continuity strategy - the bigger the enterprise, the more challenging the problem - requiring robust and reliable solutions.
[December 6, 2005, 0:01]
Brocade will shed 10 percent of staff
News Storage Area Network (SAN) hardware maker Brocade has cut nine percent of its work force, the company said on Thursday, making it the latest tech company to wield the axe. Storage area network switch makers are seeing increasing consolidation amid...
[April 11, 2003, 9:28]
SAN Fundamentals: How Fibre Channel SANs Are Built, Secured and Managed
White Papers This paper discusses the core technologies that are used to build and secure Fibre Channel based Storage Area Networks. In this paper, the term Storage Area Network (SAN) is used to describe a Fibre Channel network over which SCSI-FCP (SCSI over...
[January 8, 2008, 2:51]
Cisco-Based Storage Network Helps Cable Provider to Increase Customer Satisfaction and Operational Efficiency
White Papers BendBroadband, a privately owned, nationally recognized cable operator, has deployed a Storage Area Network (SAN) based on Cisco technology to improve customer service, reduce operating costs, and improve application performance.
[November 17, 2007, 0:00]
