What kind of user needs SAN

[Sharanya]

Hi all,

Information is growing at a rate than people think. In the next three years the amount of data generated will exceed mankind, has been for thousands of years combined. The face of "explosion" of information, data, people have felt the third wave of IT - Network Storage era. In the network storage, SAN (storage area network) is the most favored a model.I want to know that what kind of user needs SAN. Please reply. Thanks in advance.

[Spyrus]

Current telecommunications customer service and billing management systems mostly use UNIX host system in handling all the region's regular billing, sales, settlement, billing and customer service business, in order to ensure that millions of users up to provide efficient services to its business and banking data will be and management to maintain real-time exchange. The existing decentralized billing systems both in their management style, capacity, expansion capabilities, or data protection, performance, have been difficult to support the rapidly growing needs of users, the establishment of a large capacity, centralized storage, scalable, remotely disaster recovery data storage system has become an urgent demand for telecommunications. So they use SAN.

[Snake08]

The rapid development of Internet applications, telecommunications operating companies are also actively carry out new and Internet-related applications such as IP phones, e-mail, IDC, broadband and other new data communication services, in this case has created an enormous data storage, management, backup requirements, how to build a strong, high-performance, highly reliable information storage management platform, has become the telecom operators to consider the structure of information systems focus. Check and reply.

[Big Fish]

SAN technology has brought a new storage structure and storage ideas, so that storage technology has leap to a new level. SAN is designed to connect storage peripherals and server networks. It usually includes servers, external storage devices, servers, adapters, hubs, switches, and network and storage management tools. SAN in integrated network flexibility, manageability and scalability while increasing the network bandwidth and storage I / O reliability. Check and reply.

[Shen]

SAN reduces storage management costs, and balance of open system servers for storage capacity and performance for enterprise-class storage applications put forward a solution. SAN independent of the application server network outside the system, with virtually unlimited storage capacity, which uses high-speed fiber channel as a transmission medium, FC (Fiber Channel, Fibre Channel) + SCSI application protocol as the storage access protocol, the network storage system to achieve a true high-speed shared storage. All the best.

[Milton.J]

The establishment of a SAN system is expensive investment, so users usually focus on product choice. The opinion of mostly that users first need to find a professional storage systems integrator introduced the concept of storage system as a whole. Conceptual clarity, and users can construct a more effective system to determine the scale of investment. Check and reply.