Storage Area Networks: The Superior Storage Solution
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The traditional approach to collecting, storing, and using data for strategic business purposes is no longer effective. For one thing, storage solutions based on traditional technologies are simply unable to handle the sheer volume of today's information explosion. And this data storage capacity problem is only part of several other storage-related challenges faced by companies that must compete in today's information economy.
The rapid growth of enterprise-wide applications, Internet transactions, and other data-intensive business practices is also driving organizations to provide their customers with 24x7 data availability. In addition, in order to keep impatient prospects and customers from seeking alternatives, businesses must provide high data throughput as well. These primary factors, together with such key storage issues as reliability, scalability, manageability, and return on investment, have led the storage industry to provide a better storage solution - one that offers proven, real-world business benefits.
That better approach - the superior data storage solution - is the storage area network, or SAN, over Fibre Channel. This paper discusses the critical factors that are driving the SAN revolution; compares traditional and SAN technologies; presents seven key SAN benefits and how they positively impact business operations; and concludes with an overview of why some of the most demanding customers in the world choose Dot Hill's world-class products, services, and SAN solutions.