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SAN
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ALSO CALLED: SAN Architecture, Storage Network, Server Area Networks, Storage SANs, and Storage Area Networks
DEFINITION: A SAN island is a storage area network ( SAN) that exists as a discrete, isolated entity within a larger SAN. The components of a SAN island are usually all located in the same building, or even within a single room. SAN islands typically evolve within organizations as they grow. In a
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Scalable, Fault-tolerant NAS for Oracle Whitepaper
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The goal of this paper is to discuss these characteristics of the traditional single-filer NAS model and the emerging technology that addresses the issues.
Posted: 16 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2008
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Keeping It Simple: How to Protect Growing VMware Environments
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NetVault: Backup and its VMware Plugin are built with full support for today's growing VMware environments.
Posted: 16 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jul 2008
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Legacy System and SAP Consolidation Best-Practice Recommendation
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This document explains some of the ArchiveLink capabilities which can be utilized to facilitate smoother consolidation and the migration process.
Posted: 14 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jul 2008
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Protecting Stored Data, Backing up Virtual Infrastructure & Remote Data
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This session will start by explaining the challenges of backing up and recovering virtual machines residing in a virtual infrastructure such as VMware, Microsoft's Virtual Server or Virtual Iron.
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Virtual Appliance for Application Acceleration
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This technical white paper describes the impact of the WAN on the performance of centralized virtual applications, as experienced by remote office users.
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11 Myths about Microsoft Exchange Backup & Recovery
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Untangling Data Deduplication
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In this videocast, analyst and industry veteran Arun Taneja uncovers some of the important basics and trends related to data dedupe.
Posted: 09 Jul 2008 | Premiered: 09 Jul 2008, 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT)
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Making Virtualization and SAN the Perfect Combination
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Companies often try to reduce data center costs by implementing virtualization, yet fail to realize that additional expenses come with this. Read this e-guide to learn how the Storage Area Network (SAN) can be combined with virtualization to re...
Posted: 09 Jul 2008 | Published: 09 Jul 2008
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Storage Virtualization Presentation Download: Breaking the Connections
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Storage virtualization is here, breaking the connection between physical storage infrastructure and the way we use it. This presentation download provides an overview on storage virtualization and the different kinds of virtualization technologies...
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SAN DEFINITION (continued):
large SAN consisting of islands, the individual islands are interconnected and can share data. Connecting SAN islands together in an efficient manner can present a challenge to a growing organization. There are several ways in which SAN island interconnection can be accomplished. Fibre Channel's fast data transfer makes it a popular technology choice. Even though a SAN island is physically located at a specific point, it may be used for more than one application, by more than one
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