Description
At CONNECT Professional Services we work with our customers to design and deploy Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions that provide business continuance, virtualization, consolidation and data mobility.
About SAN
Storage Area Networks (SAN) provide a centralized repository for digital data that can be accessed at block level by many users. Storage costs are growing faster than server costs, increasing the need for efficient and cost-effective storage area networks. SAN solutions use high-speed connections to provide fast performance and they are primarily used to make storage devices, such as disk arrays and tape libraries, accessible to servers so that the devices appear to the operating system as locally attached devices.
Benefits and Features
The benefits of storage networking can include improved performance, reliability and availability. It can enable greater collaboration among workers, and it can simplify some IT management tasks. Storage networks also make it easier to back up data for compliance and disaster recovery purposes. In addition, they can free up valuable server CPU cycles for more important tasks. Properly designed SAN solution reduces business risk by providing flexibility and connectivity options including FC, FICON, FCoE, iSCSI, and FCIP. Using unified OS and Management tools SAN solutions can reduce OpEX, achieve operational simplicity, seamless interoperability, and feature consistency.