SAN ( SAN Architecture, Storage Network, Server Area Networks, Storage SANs, and Storage Area Networks) Definition

FREE MEMBERSHIP - Create your personalized Bitpipe Service!

Members: Sign in

May 17, 2008

Free Newsletters

SAN

-- 160 Vendor Reports | 35 Products

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 …
Definition continues below.

Recent Vendor Reports on SAN
Five Benefits of IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller Based on Real-world Deployments sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Posted: 16 May 2008 \| Published: 01 Mar 2007 SUMMARY: This white paper from technology analysts at Taneja Group examines five companies using IBM® System Storage™ SAN Volume Controller (SVC) for server virtualization. TOPICS: Data Protection \| Disaster Recovery \| Downtime \| ERP \| SAN \| SLAs \| Storage Virtualization

Storage Magazine - May 2008 sponsored by Storage Magazine WHITE PAPER: Posted: 15 May 2008 \| Published: 01 May 2008 SUMMARY: Whether you're looking for the latest storage news, trends or technologies, Storagemagazine has got it all. The May 2008 issue of Storage explores solutions for disaster recovery testing, tips for creating an eDiscovery toolkit and mu... TOPICS: Continuous Data Protection \| Data Replication \| Disaster Recovery \| Disk Backups \| NAS \| SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Replication \| Storage Resource Management Software \| Storage Virtualization \| Tape Backups \| Tape Libraries

Tiered Storage & Data Classification School I sponsored by Overland Storage WEBCAST: Posted: 14 May 2008 \| When: Available On Demand SUMMARY: View this expert Videocast to learn more about the benefits of data classification and developing a tiered storage architecture and learn how to be successful in your endeavors. TOPICS: Continuous Data Protection \| Data Classification \| Data Recovery \| Disaster Recovery \| Disk Backups \| Electronic Discovery \| Regulatory Compliance \| SAN \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Consolidation \| Tiered Storage

Simple, Affordable Disaster Recovery Automation in the Virtual Data Center sponsored by Dell \| EqualLogic PRESENTATION: Posted: 14 May 2008 \| Published: 13 May 2008 SUMMARY: This self paced online seminar will focus on showing the benefit of combining Dell EqualLogic Auto-Replication and VMware's Site Recovery Manager to provide an affordable and automated Disaster Recovery Plan for Virtual Infrastructures. TOPICS: Data Centers \| Disaster Recovery \| High Availability \| Integration \| iSCSI \| SAN \| Storage Virtualization \| WAN

Dell™ Equallogic™ PS Series with VMware Site Recovery Manager Simple, Affordable, Automated Disaster Recovery sponsored by Dell \| EqualLogic PRODUCT LITERATURE: Posted: 14 May 2008 \| Published: 01 May 2008 SUMMARY: VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is a new VMware Infrastructure 3-based solution that is tightly integrated with Dell EqualLogic PS Series storage to offer centralized disaster recovery management and testing for a virtualized datacenter. TOPICS: Disaster Recovery \| iSCSI \| RAID \| SAN \| Server Virtualization \| VMware

Making the Move to Network Attached Storage sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: Posted: 12 May 2008 \| Published: 23 Apr 2008 SUMMARY: NAS technologies can help organizations deal with the growing demands and complexities of storage today. Read this eGuide from SearchStorage.com to learn about the basic concepts of NAS, how to plan for a NAS in your business and much more. TOPICS: Continuous Data Protection \| Data Management \| Data Storage \| Disk Backups \| File Management Programs \| NAS \| NAS Software \| Request for Proposals \| SAN \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Virtualization

Podcast: Should IT Care About Records? Essential Elements of a Records Retention Program sponsored by CA PODCAST: Posted: 09 May 2008 \| Premiered: 09 May 2008 SUMMARY: In this podcast learn strategies for closing this gap and creating structured records management policies, establishing which documents users need to save, for how long and where in the system, enterprise-wide. TOPICS: Database Management \| Document Management \| Document Management Software \| Electronic Discovery \| File Sharing Protocols \| Information Management \| Information Management Software \| NAS \| Records Retention \| Regulatory Compliance \| SAN \| Storage Management

IBM Tiered Storage Management Helps Reduce Costs and Complexity sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Posted: 09 May 2008 \| Published: 01 Oct 2006 SUMMARY: IBM storage software provides powerful capabilities to manage information through its lifecycle and customers can align data value with storage costs and required service levels. TOPICS: Data Protection \| SAN \| Storage \| Storage Management

Dickinson Wright Witnesses Vast Improvements with Equallogic SAN sponsored by Dell \| EqualLogic CASE STUDY: Posted: 09 May 2008 \| Published: 09 May 2008 SUMMARY: iSCSI SAN supports blade server infrastructure with key functions such as snapshotbased backup, scaling with automatic configuration, and replication for disaster recovery. TOPICS: Data Availability \| Disaster Recovery \| Fibre Channel \| SAN \| Storage Consolidation

Intelenet Creates On-demand Computing Services with Equallogic ISCSI SAN sponsored by Dell \| EqualLogic CASE STUDY: Posted: 09 May 2008 \| Published: 09 May 2008 SUMMARY: PS Series SAN consolidates storage, easing management and backup; Delivers market differentiation and new storagebased services; Enables utility computing model for flexibility. TOPICS: DAS \| Networking \| SAN \| Security \| Storage Consolidation

View All SAN Vendor Reports »

SAN DEFINITION (continued): … 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 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 …
SAN definition sponsored by SearchStorage.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary

TechTarget provides enterprise IT professionals with the information they need to perform their jobs - from developing strategy, to making cost-effective IT purchase decisions and managing their organizations' IT projects - with its network of technology-specific Web sites, events and magazines


Definitions: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other
TechTarget Corporate Web Site \| Media Kits \| Site Map All Rights Reserved, Copyright 2000 - 2007, TechTarget \| Read our Privacy Statement