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SAN Consolidation Strategies
sponsored by Storage Magazine
Posted:  12 Dec 2006
Published:  01 Dec 2006
Format:  HTML
Length:  7  Page(s)
Type:  Journal Article

ABSTRACT:

A SAN island's single-purpose nature makes it very uneconomical, and the aggregate cost for storage and storage management of small SAN islands can be eye-opening. This wasn't an issue during the dot-com years when funds seemed inexhaustible, but the ensuing economic dip ushered in an era of consolidation and centralization; in other words, doing more with less. SAN consolidation has the following benefits:

  • Simpler storage management
  • A higher degree of storage resource utilization (capacity, bandwidth, storage controller, I/Os, storage management staff)
  • Increased reliability of the storage infrastructure
  • Enables tiered storage
  • Simplified compliance and disaster recovery (DR) processes
 
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AUTHOR: 

Jacob Gsoedl


BROWSE RELATED RESOURCES:
Data Migration | SAN | Storage Consolidation | Storage Switches | Storage Systems | Tiered Storage
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