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- Southcentral Foundation Builds Exemplary Healthcare Structure on Network Appliance IP SAN
- Southcentral Foundation is an Alaska native nonprofit healthcare organization serving Alaska native and American Indian people living in Anchorage, the Mat-Su Valley, and 60 rural villages. Southcentral wanted to replace the existing storage with a storage solution that can support high data growth, the integration of multiple facilities, and a...
- Tags: Network Appliance Inc., IP SAN, SAN, NetApp, Southcentral Foundation, Storage, Disaster Recovery, Hardware, Data Management
- Case studies
- The Regional Cancer Center Sets the Stage for a Filmless Environment With a Network Appliance IP SAN Solution
- The Regional Cancer Center TRCC is one of the largest freestanding community cancer centers in the country. The cancer center recognized that achieving its ambitious goal would require completely rethinking its infrastructure. Eliminating film and paper records made 100% availability and a robust disaster recovery strategy essential. The most challenging...
- Tags: Network Appliance Inc., Environment, IP SAN, SAN, NetApp, TRCC, Storage, Hardware
- Case studies
- Thin Provisioning in an IBM SAN or IP SAN Enterprise Environment
- This paper describes how to provision storage efficiently with IBM System Storage N series in a Fibre Channel or iSCSI deployment. Storage efficiency has historically been extremely low because of the difficulty provisioning or changing provisioning to adapt to changing needs with classic storage array architectures. System Storage N series...
- Tags: Environment, IP SAN, SAN, Provisioning, IP, IBM Corp., Storage Efficiency, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-08-28
- Thin Provisioning in a NetApp SAN or IP SAN Enterprise Environment
- Traditional disk arrays force the IT storage specialist to allocate and dedicate storage space to a particular volume or LUN at creation time. The problem is that at creation time the true requirements are often not known, which forces overprovisioning and higher costs. Network Appliance storage systems offer powerful, flexible...
- Tags: Network Appliance Inc., Environment, IP SAN, Problem, SAN, Provisioning, IP, NetApp, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2006-06-01
- The State of iSCSI-based IP SAN by ESG
- Tony Asaro, senior analyst from ESG, provides an analysis on the state of iSCSI-based IP SAN market. The report takes a close look at what triggered the need for storage networking in the first place and reviews the basics of IP SAN including IP vs. FC performance, its reliability...
- Tags: iSCSI, IP SAN, SAN, IP, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Network Technology, Storage Management, Hardware, Networking
- White papers 2006-04-01
Additional Resources
- Wasabi Storage Builder for IP-SAN V3.0
- Open up new opportunities into the high-growth Small and Medium Business SMB market by giving customers IP-SAN storage solutions that provide the security, scalability, and flexibility advantages of a traditional SAN at a lower cost. Using Wasabi Storage Builder and economical, off-the-shelf hardware, OEMs and system integrators can rapidly create...
- Tags: Small And Medium Business, Wasabi Systems, Smb/Sme, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-10-10
- Using Wasabi Storage Builder With Symantec Backup Exec
- Wasabi Storage Builder for IP-SAN is a fast, powerful, and cost-effective IP-based Storage Area Network (IP-SAN) solution. Built on Wasabi's industry-proven storage systems and software technologies, Storage Builder for IP-SAN delivers top-notch features and performance at a price that's hard to beat. This paper provides a technical overview of how...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Symantec Backup Exec, Wasabi Systems, Storage Management, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2006-09-01
- IP Storage Technologies and Solutions
- The term "IP Storage" is generally used to refer to a Storage Area Networking solution that uses standard Ethernet connectivity in some way. These solutions typically fall into one of two categories: those that use an Ethernet link to interconnect Fibre Channel SAN environments via gateways; and those where a...
- Tags: SAN, IP, Storage, Ethernet, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Networking, Hardware
- White papers 2005-04-01
- Normal Fiber switch with SAN switch
- I'm planning a SAN solution.Instead of buying those SAN switches like Brocade can I use the normal network switch which also have the fiber port which are the same LC connector?Is there are different betweens those switchesI would frankly deny this possibility: normal switches manage TCP-protocol traffic; SAN Switches manage...
- Tags: fiber, hardware, IP, lcw@..., SAN, swITch
- Q&A 2005-03-09
- Evaluating Availability of Networked Storages Using Commercial Workloads
- This paper presents an availability study of Storage Area Network SAN systems built on TCP/IP networks. The paper uses a new benchmark tool called N-SPEK (Networked-Storage Performability Evaluation Kernel-module) to measure performance dynamics under commercial workloads with various faulty conditions of different parts of a SAN system. By injecting network...
- Tags: SAN, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Storage Management, Hardware
- White papers 2007-01-01
- VERITAS Storage Foundation for Windows: Deploying IP SANS With Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows
- IP Storage is a new storage technology that is gaining in growing popularity with customers. Customers are finding that IP Storage opens up a new alternative to move Windows servers into a SAN environment with the benefit of lower hardware and management costs. iSCSI SANs help customers utilize storage resources...
- Tags: iSCSI, VERITAS Software Corp., VERITAS Storage Foundation, IP, Microsoft Windows, IP Storage, Storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Hardware
- White papers 2004-12-09
- Modeling and Performance Evaluation of iSCSI Storage Area Networks Over TCP/IP-Based MAN and WAN Networks
- This paper provides a concise modeling and performance evaluation of the iSCSI Storage Area Network SAN architecture and protocol. SANs play a key role in business continuity, enterprise-wide storage consolidation and disaster recovery strategies in which storage resources are most often distributed over many distant data center locations. In the...
- Tags: Metropolitan Area Network, TCP/IP, iSCSI, Performance, Network, SAN, Performance Evaluation, WAN, Modeling, Storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Networking, Hardware
- White papers
- Innovative Computing Systems, San Francisco Law Firm Take IP Leap of Faith
- Cooper, White & Cooper LLP is a San Francisco-based law firm. Its traditional PBX telephone system had reached the end of its life cycle and was expensive to maintain, so the firm was looking to upgrade its phone technology and reduce maintenance costs. Innovative Computing Systems ICS, a Cisco Premier...
- Tags: Phone, IP, Cisco Systems Inc., Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications
- Case studies
- SAN Lessons Learned
- When Brocade Director of IT, Jim Ravelli, implemented a SAN last year, he went through many of the same steps you might encounter in migrating to a SAN architecture. In this FREE webcast "SAN Lessons Learned," Jim will describe the Brocade IT environment before the SAN, and the steps involved...
- Tags: Brocade Communications Systems Inc., SAN, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Storage, Hardware
- Webcasts
- Benefits of Upgrading to a 4Gb SAN Infrastructure
- Today's organizations must weigh the decision to upgrade to a 4Gb SAN infrastructure against their current and future service requirements in terms of functionality, scalability, and strategic growth. If self-containment is important, and the SAN infrastructure is performing adequately, it is likely that no changes need to occur. However, if...
- Tags: SAN, Benefit, Infrastructure, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Storage Management, Hardware
- White papers 2007-03-01
- GlobalSAN iSCSI initiator (dmg)
- GlobalSAN iSCSI initiator is a network protocol standard that enables the transport of block-level I/O over TCP/IP. When deployed over a Gigabit or 10-Gigabit Ethernet network, an iSCSI-based storage area network SAN can rival the performance of a Fibre Channel SAN, and can cost far less to implement. In an...
- Tags: iSCSI, SAN, Studio Network Solutions, GlobalSAN iSCSI Initiator, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Storage Management, Ip storage, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking
- Software downloads 2007-03-19
- SAN Conceptual and Design Basics
- VMware ESX Server can be used in conjunction with a SAN Storage Area Network, a specialized high-speed network that connects computer systems to high performance storage subsystems. Using ESX Server together with a SAN provides extra storage for consolidation, improves reliability, and helps with disaster recovery. To use ESX Server...
- Tags: SAN, VMWare ESX Server, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Storage Management, Hardware
- White papers 2006-09-20
- Creating Performance-based SAN SLAs
- Storage Area Networks SANs play an increasingly critical role in application performance and the function of information throughout an enterprise. More-and-more, organizations are looking to service level agreements SLAs as a means to quantify and enforce SAN effectiveness. Currently, many enterprises think of SAN SLAs in terms of uptime alone....
- Tags: Performance, SAN, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Storage Management, Hardware
- White papers
- TCP Congestion Window Control on an iSCSI Read Access in a Long-Latency Environment
- As the broadband networks are widely used, IP-SAN is expected as the next generation's SAN because of its low cost. The iSCSI protocol, represented as IP-SAN technology, is becoming increasingly important. However, the performance of iSCSI network is lower than that of network based only on TCP/IP, due to its...
- Tags: iSCSI, Microsoft Access, Window, TCP, iSCSI Network Performance, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Network Technology, Storage, Hardware, Networking
- White papers 2005-05-01
- HP Online and SAN Consolidation Solutions
- Consolidating SAN interconnect devices enables a person to join multiple SAN islands to build highly scalable and available storage networks with comprehensive security and unified management.
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., SAN, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-02-01
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