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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 large SAN consisting of islands, the individual islands are interconnected and can share data. Connecting SAN islands … Definition continues below.
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High Performance NAS sponsored by BlueArc Corp. WHITE PAPER: Read this special report that reviews current NAS trends including high-availability clustered storage to address growing storage needs and today's media-rich file environments and more. Posted: 05 Nov 2009 \| Published: 05 Nov 2009 TOPICS: 10 Gigabit Ethernet \| High Availability \| NAS \| NAS Software \| SAN \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Management Software \| Storage Virtualization \| VMware

Extending the Benefits of Virtualization to Remote Office and Branch Locations, Small to Medium Businesses and Web Hosters sponsored by VM6 Software WHITE PAPER: VM6 provides affordable software solutions to extend the benefits of enterprise-class virtualization to remote offices and branch locations (ROBO), small to medium businesses and web hosters. Posted: 27 Oct 2009 \| Published: 27 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Downtime \| High Availability \| Network Management \| ROBO \| ROI \| SAN \| Server Provisioning \| Server Virtualization \| SMBs \| Virtual Desktop Infrastructure \| Web Hosting

Distributed IT Infrastructures: Alternative Approaches sponsored by VM6 Software WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper outlines the benefits derived and the costs associated with virtualization in the Remote Offices/Branch Offices, in the classic model versus the proposed model. Posted: 27 Oct 2009 \| Published: 27 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Consolidation \| Data Centers \| High Availability \| IT Infrastructure \| Microsoft Hyper-V \| SAN \| Server Consolidation \| Server Management \| Server Provisioning \| Server Virtualization \| SLA \| SMBs \| Systems Management \| TCO \| VM \| WAN

HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualisation Services Platform: Simplifying Heterogeneous Storage Virtualisation sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: This report documents the results of ESG Lab testing of the HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP). The enhanced high availability and disaster recovery capabilities of asynchronous remote mirroring are also presented. Posted: 14 Oct 2009 \| Published: 14 Oct 2009 TOPICS: NAS \| NAS Software \| SAN \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Management \| Storage Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization Software

Rethinking Virtualization Solutions with HP LeftHand P4000 SANs sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions provide optimized storage for your virtualized server environment, allowing your storage infrastructure to support virtual servers, including support for high-availability (HA) and disaster-recovery (DR) features in virtual environments. Posted: 08 Oct 2009 \| Published: 08 Oct 2009 TOPICS: High Availability \| SAN \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Management \| Storage Standards \| Storage Virtualization

NAS For Virtualized Environments sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems WHITE PAPER: As more companies are turning to server virtualization, NAS clusters are seeing increased popularity. In addition to giving an overview of the basics of network-attached storage, this E-Guide discusses the best practices to put to use today when managing Networked-attached storage in a virtual environment. Posted: 07 Oct 2009 \| Published: 07 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Backup Software \| Backups \| NAS \| NAS Software \| SAN \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Management Software \| Storage Virtualization

How to Select the Correct RAID for an EqualLogic SAN sponsored by Dell India WHITE PAPER: One of the most important decisions that you have to make when deploying a new storage solution is what RAID type(s) to use. Read this white paper for a discussion on how to select the right RAID policy for your Dell EqualLogic™ storage area network (SAN) arrays. Posted: 29 Sep 2009 \| Published: 29 Sep 2009 TOPICS: RAID \| SAN \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Devices \| Storage Management \| Storage Spending

Business Value of Storage Virtualisation: Scaling the Storage Solution; Leveraging the Storage Investment sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: This analysis looks at the positive business impact of networked storage virtualisation solutions that improve storage asset utilisation, reduce the administrative costs of provisioning new storage systems, and improve application availability. Posted: 29 Sep 2009 \| Published: 29 Sep 2009 TOPICS: SAN \| Storage Management \| Storage Resource Management \| Storage Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization Software \| VMware \| VMware Server

Storage Virtualisation and the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: This white paper presents an overview of storage virtualisation at the controller level of a storage system. It describes how HP defines virtualisation technology and how it applies to the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) storage system. Posted: 29 Sep 2009 \| Published: 29 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Data Centers \| Network Performance \| SAN \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Management \| Storage Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization Software \| TCO \| Tiered Storage

Storage Virtualization with the HP StorageWorks sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: The most powerful application of virtualization today is at the storage system level. With the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array and HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services platform, organizations can take advantage of the many benefits of virtualization with a solution designed specifically for open systems. Posted: 24 Sep 2009 \| Published: 24 Sep 2009 TOPICS: NAS \| RAID \| SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Systems \| Storage Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization Software

Case Study: U.S. Air Force Manages Aircraft Site Using Powerful Storage Virtualization Platform sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: When the U.S. Air force needed a more powerful storage infrastructure, they turned to HP for a system that allowed them to meet business demands more flexibly, manage data more simply and efficiently and mitigate the risk of lost data with a storage area network (SAN) that pools, shares and centrally manages storage resources. Posted: 23 Sep 2009 \| Published: 23 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Data Loss Prevention (DLP) \| Data Management \| SAN \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management

Virtualize Your End-to-End IT infrastructure and Reduce OpEx and CapEx sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: Many companies that have deployed server virtualization are still struggling with massive data growth, rising storage maintenance cost, and underutilized storage assets from a multitude of vendors. A virtual storage infrastructure from HP can double your capacity utilization and cut management costs in half. Posted: 23 Sep 2009 \| Published: 23 Sep 2009 TOPICS: NAS \| NAS Software \| RAID \| SAN \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Management \| Storage Standards \| Storage Virtualization

Improving IT Economics with Storage and Server Virtualization sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the powerful combination of HP StorageWorks SVSP storage virtualization solution with server virtualization products to produce a more dynamic IT infrastructure that improves efficiencies and simplifies operations. Posted: 23 Sep 2009 \| Published: 23 Sep 2009 TOPICS: SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Resource Management \| Storage Systems \| Storage Virtualization \| VMware

Rethinking Storage Virtualization with the HP SAN Virtualization Services Platform sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: If you are looking to improve the efficiency of your storage infrastructure, consider the HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP). It allows you to provision virtual volumes to meet the requirements of your standard and virtual servers. It delivers improved storage resource utilization along with comprehensive data protection. Posted: 23 Sep 2009 \| Published: 23 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Data Storage \| SAN \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Management Software \| Storage Provisioning \| Storage Virtualization

Where Do You Put a Million Files? HP StorageWorks 9100 Extreme Data Storage System sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: Today’s storage-intensive businesses bring extreme data volumes with them. This must be stored as economically as possible, while providing the critical uptime to satisfy thousands of diverse users. Posted: 21 Sep 2009 \| Published: 21 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Data Loss Prevention (DLP) \| Data Management \| NAS \| SAN \| Storage Management \| Storage Resource Management \| Storage Systems \| Storage Virtualization

Three Steps to Improving Server Virtualization ROI with everRun sponsored by Marathon Technologies WHITE PAPER: Server virtualization offers a tremendous opportunity for cost savings in the data center. This paper will give three steps you can take to dramatically improve your cost savings from server virtualization as well as show how companies are using Marathon's everRun software to implement those steps. Posted: 18 Sep 2009 \| Published: 18 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Applications Management \| Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| IT Best Practices \| IT Management \| Network Performance \| ROI \| SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software \| Storage Management

Hitachi NAS Platform 3080 and 3090: Storage Consolidation and Intelligent Tiering for VMware Environments sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems WHITE PAPER: The rapid adoption of server virtualization technology by organizations of all sizes has been driven by cost, flexibility and time to market. The cost savings in server consolidation are the primary motivators, but the ability to quickly deploy new applications to suit changes in the business has led many to use VMware products. Posted: 14 Sep 2009 \| Published: 14 Sep 2009 TOPICS: NAS \| NAS Software \| SAN \| Storage Management \| Storage Resource Management \| Storage Systems \| Storage Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization Software \| VMware \| VMware ESX

Using an SRM Tool to Ground In-the-Cloud Storage sponsored by Northern Parklife WHITE PAPER: This paper addresses the challenges and drawbacks of in-the-cloud storage, addressing such issues as control, security, compliance, data availability, and overall management. It also shows how storage can work within a private or internal cloud framework. Posted: 31 Aug 2009 \| Published: 31 Aug 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Cloud Computing \| SAN \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Management \| Storage Resource Management \| Storage Resource Management Software \| Storage Virtualization

Building High-performance, Highly Available IP Storage Networks with HP SAN/iQ Software sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: If you’re an administrator who’s planning to build a high performance, highly available IP network using HP SAN/iQ Software, you should read this document in its entirety. You’ll find important configuration guidelines, best practices, and frequently asked questions that will help you to accelerate a successful deployment. Posted: 27 Aug 2009 \| Published: 27 Aug 2009 TOPICS: Cluster Management \| Clustering \| iSCSI Protocol \| iSCSI SAN \| NAS \| SAN \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Management \| Storage Resource Management \| Storage Virtualization

Matching Server Virtualization with Advanced Storage Virtualization sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: The white paper explains the benefits of matching server virtualization with advanced storage virtualization using HP LeftHand SAN and VMware Infrastructure. Posted: 26 Aug 2009 \| Published: 26 Aug 2009 TOPICS: Data Management \| NAS \| RAID \| SAN \| Storage Management \| Storage Resource Management \| Storage Virtualization \| VMware

Fundamentals of a Well-Built SAN sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: The purpose of this white paper is to describe the benefits of a clustered architecture in comparison with traditional controller-based architectures, and to discuss the technology that makes HP LeftHand SANs better by design. Posted: 14 Aug 2009 \| Published: 14 Aug 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Fibre Channel SAN \| iSCSI SAN \| SAN \| Storage Management \| Storage Resource Management \| Storage Standards \| Storage Systems

Presentation Transcript: Best Practices for Backup sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: In this presentation transcript, Curtis Preston, one of the leading backup experts in the country, describes some key best practices that will help build a better backup system. Posted: 04 Aug 2009 \| Published: 04 Aug 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| NAS \| SAN \| Storage Management \| Storage Management Software \| Storage Resource Management \| Storage Virtualization

Email, Database and File Sharing on Dell™ NX4 sponsored by Dell, Inc. WHITE PAPER: The NX4 allows businesses to consolidate Microsoft Exchange application storage, Microsoft SQL database storage, and general purpose file servers on to a single, unified storage platform. This consolidated storage methodology delivers network-attached storage (NAS) for file sharing and iSCSI or Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN) connectivity. Posted: 22 Jul 2009 \| Published: 22 Jul 2009 TOPICS: Data Management \| Databases \| Fibre Channel \| File Sharing Protocols \| iSCSI Protocol \| Microsoft Exchange \| NAS \| SAN \| SQL Server \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Management \| Storage Systems

Data Deduplication Background - A Technical White Paper sponsored by Quantum Corporation WHITE PAPER: The purpose of data deduplication is to increase the amount of information that can be stored on disk arrays and to increase the effective amount of data that can be transmitted over networks. Read this white paper to learn more about data deduplication as well as Quantum Dxi-Series disk-based backup solutions. Posted: 10 Jun 2009 \| Published: 10 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Deduplication \| Data Recovery \| Data Replication \| NAS \| RAID \| SAN \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Management

IT Consolidation with VMware and Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SANs sponsored by Dell, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Dell EqualLogic&trade PS Series iSCSI SANs help to reduce the cost and complexity of IT Consolidation and uniquely integrate with VMware® Infrastructure to enable the fully virtualized IT environment Posted: 14 May 2009 \| Published: 14 May 2009 TOPICS: iSCSI SAN \| Network Best Practices \| SAN \| Software \| Software Development Life-Cycles \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Hardware \| Storage Infrastructure

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SAN DEFINITION (continued): … 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 department within an organization, or by multiple organizations. Alternatively, an administrator may choose to allocate all the resources of a SAN island to one critical application. Drive sharing and data copying is common among SAN …
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