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ALSO CALLED: SAN Architecture, Storage Network, Server Area Networks, Storage SANs, 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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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essential Guide to Backup and Virtual Servers sponsored by SearchStorage.com EGUIDE: This Essential Guide offers a collection of tips, tools and techniques that you can use to back up your virtual servers more efficiently. Find out about the intricacies of using VMware's Consolidate Backup (VCB) application, get tips on how to fine-tune your current backup app for virtual servers, and read about the common problems and solutions. Posted: 09 Sep 2009 \| Published: 09 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Consolidation \| Data Centers \| SAN \| Server Consolidation \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Virtualization \| Virtual Machine \| Virtual Machine Backups \| Virtualization Security \| VMware \| VMware Server

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

Right-sizing Your Storage Infrastructure with Tiered Storage sponsored by Datalink and Hitachi Data Systems PODCAST: This podcast will define tiered storage and explain how tiered storage can drive efficiency in your IT operations. Listen to this podcast to find out what you should consider before implementing a tiered storage solution. Posted: 25 Aug 2009 \| Premiered: 25 Aug 2009 TOPICS: Applications Management \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Recovery \| High Availability \| SAN \| SLA \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Tiered Storage

Protecting the Virtual Environment Using Auto-Snapshot Manager/VMware Edition sponsored by Dell, Inc. TECHNICAL ARTICLE: This Technical Report focuses on the installation, configuration and usage of Auto-Snapshot Manager/VMware™ Edition to obtain hypervisor aware snapshots and provide an additional layer of data protection for the Virtual Environment. Posted: 24 Aug 2009 \| Published: 24 Aug 2009 TOPICS: Continuous Data Protection Software \| SAN \| Virtual Machine \| Virtual Machine Backups \| VMware \| VMware Infrastructure 3

Dell EqualLogic PS Series Storage in VMware Environments sponsored by Dell, Inc. PRODUCT DEMO: View this step-by-step product demonstration to see how to implement a high performance, highly available, and easily scaled SAN without impacting applications or limiting performance as workloads change and grow. Posted: 24 Aug 2009 \| Published: 24 Aug 2009 TOPICS: Data Recovery \| High Availability \| iSCSI SAN \| SAN \| Storage Hardware \| VMware \| VMware ESX \| VMware Infrastructure 3

Storage Systems & Storage Management Track: New Developments in Scale-out vs. Scale-up Data Storage sponsored by 3PAR PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript, Brian Greenberg, President and CEO, General System Dynamics, explores the distinctions between scale-out and scale-up systems, major use cases for this technology and an assessment of new scale-out/clustered storage systems from major vendors. Posted: 18 Aug 2009 \| Published: 18 Aug 2009 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Cluster Management \| Clustering \| DAS \| Disk Storage Systems \| NAS \| SAN \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Standards

Storage Systems & Storage Management Track: The Truth about Virtualizing Storage sponsored by 3PAR PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript, Marc Staimer, Founder and CDS, Dragon Slayer Consulting, will explain the practical benefits of storage virtualization, including how to assess your environment to determine the cost-effectiveness of virtualization. Posted: 18 Aug 2009 \| Published: 18 Aug 2009 TOPICS: Cluster Management \| Clustering \| IP Networks \| NAS \| SAN \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Virtualization

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

Northern Storage Suite V8 - Product Demo sponsored by Northern Parklife PRODUCT DEMO: Northern Storage Suite is a Storage Resource Management solution; a software solution that targets the costs and complexities of managing stored user-generated data. Download this free demo and see how it can go to work for you! Posted: 06 Aug 2009 \| Published: 06 Aug 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Capacity Planning \| Data Management Software \| NAS \| NAS Software \| Network Performance \| SAN \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Management \| Storage Management Services \| Storage Resource Management \| Storage Virtualization

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

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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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