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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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Presentation Transcript: File Virtualization Explained sponsored by F5 Networks UK PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: At its most basic, file virtualization is about separating file data from restrictions in how it is accessed and manipulated. It can also ease things when it comes to migrating those storage systems. Read this presentation transcript to find out more about file virtualization. Posted: 06 Nov 2009 \| Published: 06 Nov 2009 TOPICS: File Server Software \| NAS \| SAN \| Storage Appliances \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization Software \| Structured Data

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

Dell and Microsoft solutions help ServiceU deliver reliable system performance and create a virtualized environment that reduces power consumption by 50 percent sponsored by Dell and Microsoft CASE STUDY: ServiceU Corporation was challenged to deploy reliable hardware to support its Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 environment and virtualize other applications to enhance business flexibility. Read this case study to learn about the benefits that ServiceU achieved through by implementing Dell hardware and Microsoft Hyper-V technology. Posted: 28 Oct 2009 \| Published: 28 Oct 2009 TOPICS: IT Infrastructure \| Microsoft Hyper-V \| SAN \| Server Consolidation \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization \| Software as a Service \| SQL Server \| Storage Management

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

Presentation Transcript: Windows Server Provisioning for High Availability sponsored by Marathon Technologies PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Businesses rely heavily on their servers, so if they fail productivity is lost. This expert webcast explores the dangers of unplanned server downtime. Discover some of the most important planning, configurations and management issues for server high availability. Posted: 23 Oct 2009 \| Published: 23 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Clustering \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Disaster Recovery \| Downtime \| Grid Computing \| High Availability \| Network Management \| Network Performance \| SAN \| Server Hardware \| Server Management

Architecting Deduplication and Virtualization for Best of Breed Data Protection sponsored by Data Domain WEBCAST: Boston Medical Center details its decision process and successful implementation of Data Domain deduplication storage as well as the economic benefits received by going tapeless for backup and disaster recovery. Mr. Blake presented to an audience at Gartner's Data Center Conference. Posted: 23 Oct 2009 \| Premiered: 23 Oct 2009 TOPICS: SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Management \| Storage Provisioning \| Storage Replication \| Storage Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization Software \| VMware

Essential Guide To Storage Networking sponsored by Double-Take Software EGUIDE: In this e-guide, storage networking experts and technologists spotlight the advancements that will have the most significant impact in storage networking to help you prepare for the future. Posted: 19 Oct 2009 \| Published: 19 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Backup Server Hardware \| Backup Software \| Backups \| NAS \| NAS Software \| SAN \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Management \| Storage Resource Management \| Storage Virtualization

File Virtualization Explained sponsored by F5 Networks PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: At its most basic, file virtualization is about separating file data from restrictions in how it is accessed and manipulated. It can also ease things when it comes to migrating those storage systems. Read this presentation transcript to find out more about file virtualization. Posted: 16 Oct 2009 \| Published: 16 Oct 2009 TOPICS: File Server Software \| NAS \| SAN \| Storage Appliances \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization Software \| Structured Data

Why Would You - Use Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp together with HP StorageWorks sponsored by HP, Citrix, and Intel WEBCAST: In this webcast, discover how application and desktop virtualization together with blade servers and SAN technology provide the most cost-effective virtual desktop tools for everyone in your organization. Gain insight into how to leverage this approach to simplify your IT systems while improving the productivity of your users. Posted: 15 Oct 2009 \| Premiered: 15 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Blade Servers \| Desktop Applications Management \| Desktop Management \| Desktop Virtualization \| Desktop Virtualization Software \| Microsoft Hyper-V \| Network Performance \| SAN \| Storage Management \| Systems Management

Taking Network Configuration and Change Management to the Next Level sponsored by Dorado Software EGUIDE: This E-guide addresses configuration and change management in a partially virtual environment. Topics include: reporting on and managing virtual servers, the effects of physical changes on servers, how to extend change management processes like ITIL to cover the SAN, and handling human problems between the networking, datacenter, and storage teams. Posted: 15 Oct 2009 \| Published: 15 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Change Management \| Configuration Management \| Hardware Configuration Management \| ITIL \| Network Configuration Management \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Network Monitoring \| Network Performance \| SAN \| Server Virtualization

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

Presentation Transcript: MS SQL Server 2008 sponsored by Fusion-IO PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Check out this transcript of a presentation given by Sumeet Bansal, Fusion-io Principal Solutions Architect, to learn how Fusion-io solutions enhance SQL server performance, improve customer experience, and optimize storage management systems. Posted: 12 Oct 2009 \| Published: 12 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Data Loss Prevention (DLP) \| Database Administration \| Database Administrators \| Database Management \| Database Performance Management \| Database Security \| eCommerce \| SAN \| Storage Management

Windows Server Provisioning for High Availability sponsored by Marathon Technologies WEBCAST: Businesses rely heavily on their servers, so if they fail productivity is lost. This expert webcast explores the dangers of unplanned server downtime. Discover some of the most important planning, configurations and management issues for server high availability. Posted: 09 Oct 2009 \| Premiered: 09 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Clustering \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Disaster Recovery \| Downtime \| Grid Computing \| High Availability \| Network Management \| Network Performance \| SAN \| Server Hardware \| Server Management \| Systems Management

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

Intel-Powered Dell Server Solutions for PartnerDirect Partners sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel PRODUCT OVERVIEW: In recent years, server technology has taken an enormous leap forward, thanks to the incredible advances from Dell's engineering teams and Intel's introduction and evolution of Xeon® processors. No matter what IT challenges you are helping your customers to solve, you'll find the answer with Dell and Intel. Posted: 07 Oct 2009 \| Published: 07 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Blade Servers \| Data Center Management \| NAS \| SAN \| Server Hardware \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Hardware \| Tower Servers

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

3PAR Utility Storage Pays Off Big For Travel Giant Priceline.Com sponsored by 3PAR CASE STUDY: Priceline.com purchased and deployed six 3PAR InServ S400 tiered storage arrays across multiple locations to consolidate and protect all mission-critical and SAN-resident data, including core demand collection and offer processing Oracle® databases. Posted: 02 Oct 2009 \| Published: 02 Oct 2009 TOPICS: SAN \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Provisioning \| Storage Resource Management \| TCO \| Tiered Storage

Case Study: Indiabulls Gets Bullish on Growth by Deploying Dell Servers and a Dell SAN sponsored by Dell India CASE STUDY: Read this case study to learn how one of India's leading financial services firms paved the way for continued growth and improved customer service by deploying Dell servers and a Dell SAN. Posted: 30 Sep 2009 \| Published: 30 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Centers \| ERP \| Financial Services \| Financial Services Industry \| IT Infrastructure \| SAN \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Infrastructure

Case Study: Shift to Blades Speeds Up and Simplifies IT sponsored by Dell India CASE STUDY: Read this paper to learn how Precision Automation and Robotics India Ltd reduced server footprint by 50 percent and energy costs by 30 percent by implementing an infrastructure based Dell™ PowerEdge™ blades running virtualization and Dell/EMC SAN array. Posted: 30 Sep 2009 \| Published: 30 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Blade Servers \| Data Center Cooling \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Center Power Management \| SAN \| Server Consolidation \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software \| Storage Management

Key Considerations For Online Backup sponsored by 3X Systems EGUIDE: This E-Guide will highlight the key considerations to be aware of when evaluating online backup solutions and will also highlight critical questions to ask vendors. Posted: 30 Sep 2009 \| Published: 30 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Business Continuity Planning Software \| Continuous Data Protection \| NAS \| Online Backup Software \| Online Backups \| SAN \| SMBs \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Industry \| Storage Management \| Storage Resource Management \| 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

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

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

Hitachi NAS Platform 3080 and 3090: Unified Storage Architecture and Intelligent Tiered Storage for Enterprise Midrange NAS sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems DATA SHEET: The midrange Hitachi NAS Platform 3080 and 3090 offer best-in-class performance and scalability for unstructured data consolidation, multiprotocol file sharing, backup, replication, archive and disaster recovery of commercial application data. Posted: 25 Sep 2009 \| Published: 25 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| File Sharing Protocols \| NAS \| NAS Software \| SAN \| Storage Management \| Storage Replication Software \| Storage Virtualization

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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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