Solutions for Data Storage
The industry is now mid-way through a fundamental change in the way organisations store their data:In the past your organisation is likely to have relied upon either: a distributed storage architecture, such as internal disk drives installed in servers or external disk arrays connected to individual servers; or perhaps consolidated external disk arrays directly connected to servers.
Most organisations will benefit from moving, over time, towards this type of data storage infrastructure: shared resources on a SAN.
SAN Roadmap
Network Attached Storage (NAS) satisfies some online storage requirements – most often as a drop-in replacement for one or more file servers, where the "fan out" ratio is high (e.g. data on one NAS array can be directly accessed from any one of hundreds of desktop or laptop PCs). SAN-based disk covers the remainder.
Tape storage is still the essential backstop, the "last line of defence" in the data protection space. Automated, large-scale tape libraries now become a resource to be shared and accessed via the SAN as needed.
Follow our SAN roadmap, beginning with the common starting point, to learn how this new technology can benefit your enterprise.
Enterprise Storage Client Example
Equallogic
NetApp
External Arrays
Fibre Channel and SAN
Tape Automation
Tape Drive Sharing
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