Storage area network components and architecture

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Building a Highly Reliable SAN by Dell | EqualLogic
reliability is a vital component in Storage Area Network (SAN) design that keeps your production environment operating and avoids data loss and downtime. System reliability is...
Open Source Storage: Addressing the need for new Storage Architecture by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
storage uses industry-standard components and open software to build highly scalable, reliable, and affordable enterprise storage systems. Today's digital...
Sun Fire X4540 Storage Server: The Industry's First Open Storage Server by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
industry-standard compute and storage components in an open architecture and runs the Solaris OS and Solaris ZFS. The Sun Fire x4540 storage server...
Infrastructure Concerns for High Performance Applications by Agilysys-Sun Technology Solutions
but storage response issues and added hardware increase costs and complexity. Read this white paper to learn about a storage techniques for high...
Using a Shared-Disk Architecture for Your Data Management System by Sybase, Inc.
that simultaneously access a Storage Area Network. ASE Cluster Edition uses a shared-disk architecture designed to support up to 32 nodes, each running one or more ASE...
Open Storage Adoption by Incentra Solutions
how Sun is leading the open storage revolution, combining open-source software with industry-standard system components to reduce storage costs by up to...
NetBackup™ Architecture Overview by Symantec Corporation
a basic NetBackup™ architecture to help customers understand which components are required in a data protection solution. The purpose of this...
An Approach to Data Management with Higher Application Service Levels at a Lower Cost by Sybase, Inc.
access the same data stored in a Storage Area Network. If one or more nodes in the cluster fail, others automatically take over. Patent-pending Virtualized Resource...
IBM X-Architecture Blueprint: An Overview by IBM and Intel
45; innovative hardware, software and services - to solve customer challenges through an evolving design approach to System x, BladeCenter, iDataPlex...
Government Data Center Network by Juniper Networks, Inc.
best practices, technologies and products that support data center architects and engineers responsible for answering the requirements of...
Sun Storage and Archive Solution for HPC by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
article is intended for IT managers and storage architects familiar with HPC applications and data requirements in the organization. Today's exponential...
IDC: Business Value of Virtualized IT: Ensuring That Your Virtualized Servers and Storage Work in Harmony by Citrix
in the range of applications and server environments that companies are deploying will have a significant effect on how they set up their datacenters...
ESG: CX4 - CLARiiON Improves Again by EMC Corporation
to learn about a new storage product and the four key impact areas that address current market concerns, including attractive Total Cost of Ownership and...
IT Briefing: The Benefits of File Virtualization by EMC Corporation
are deploying to help manage network attached storage more efficiently. Any file virtualization solution that you evaluate needs to have three key...
IBM Enterprise Content Management and System Storage Solutions: Working Together by IBM
to IBMers, business partners, and customers on how to implement FileNet ECM with IBM Storage Solutions. An Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system is...
Is Your Mission Critical Environment Risk Free? by Hewlett-Packard Company
This webcast explains the 7 vital components that make up a mission critical environment, what are some practical first steps to take and where are the areas of...
Building a Reliable and Dynamic Data Center with PAN Manager by Egenera, Inc.
computing platforms, storage area networks, and server virtualization.

This paper helps you gain an understanding of the steps you can take to reach the...
Using HP StorageWorks All-in-One Storage System with VMware ESX Server Solution - Overview and Configuration Guide by Hewlett-Packard Company
how HP StorageWorks All-in-One Storage System can be used as the storage repository for a VMware ESX server using iSCSI connectivity between the iSCSI...
Storage Networking Case Study: How Cisco IT Uses a SAN to Automate the Legal Discovery Process by Cisco Systems, Inc.
IT's internal deployment of a storage area network (SAN) within the Cisco network, a leading-edge enterprise environment that is one of the largest and most complex in...
Rethink Storage with Sun Storage 7000 Systems by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems bring a new level of simplicity and price/performance to the Open Storage market by...
Implementing Highly Available Data Protection with Veritas NetBackup by Symantec Corporation
system based on NetBackup and outlines a number of different configurations and solutions aimed at both reducing the risk of failure within a...
Sun's Reference Architecture for Next-Generation Data Backup by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
describes the Sun reference architecture for next-generation data backup using Symantec NetBackup software. The Sun reference architecture for next-...
Storage Economics Podcast: Ideas and Tactics to Reduce Storage Total Cost of Ownership by Hitachi Data Systems
David Merrill, Chief Storage Economist at Hitachi Data Systems, discusses concepts and principles around storage TCO, ideas and tactics to...
Effective Disaster Recovery Planning by F5 Networks
and an effective and efficient Wide Area Network (WAN) that enables those processes to be accomplished successfully.

Two of the critical metrics used in measuring the...
LEARNING GUIDES
on input from industry analysts and SearchStorage.com editors. The specifications, which were provided by the vendors, are current as of October 2008. They...
NAS) system that would be easy to use and easy to manage.

Today's NAS products remain true to that guiding principle.

"The reality of the situation is that just...

point of differentiation from a storage area network (SAN). SANs have no file system and support only block-level access to data through protocols, such as Fibre Channel or...
disk -- mostly direct attached storage -- with another separate library of tape backup totaling 2-3 TB," he says. But over the past five years, operations grew to...