a dedicated, high-speed network that establishes a direct connection between storage elements and servers.
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A high-speed, special-purpose network that connects different data storage devices to servers. A SAN can provide backup and archival storage for multiple or remote locations.
SANs are an evolving approach to storage, where multiple storage devices are connected to multiple servers for higher capacity, throughput, and reliability. SANs require sophisticated RAID management software and high-performance I/O connectivity.
A SAN is an additional network, independent of the production network. It is used solely to interconnect storage and servers.
Storage area network. A network of hard drives or other storage devices that provide storage for another network of computers.
Short for Storage Area Network, a network designed to attach computer storage devices such as disk array controllers and tape libraries to servers. In a storage network, a server issues a request for specific blocks, or data segments, from specific disk drives. This method is known as block storage. The device acts in a similar fashion to an internal drive, accessing the specified block, and sending the response across the network.
Storage Area Network A common name for networks that connect storage devices and servers.
"Storage Area Network," a storage design that connects all the storage devices on a network with all the servers on a network for enhanced reliability and performance.
See storage area network.
A high-speed sub-network of shared storage devices. In large enterprises, a SAN connects multiple servers to a centralized pool of disk storage. Compared to managing hundreds of servers, each with their own disks, SANs reduce system administration overhead. By treating all the company's storage as a single resource, disk maintenance and routine backups are easier to schedule and control. In some SANs, the disks themselves can copy data to other disks for backup without any processing overhead at the host computers.
storage area network. A set of interconnected devices (such as disks and tapes) and servers that are connected to a common communication and data transfer infrastructure such as Fibre Channel.
Storage Area Network. A networking paradigm that provides easily reconfigurable connectivity between any subset of computers, disk storage and interconnecting hardware such as switches, hubs and bridges.
Storage Area Network. A storage architecture that connects servers and storage devices via a network for enhanced reliability, scalability and performance.
Storage area network. A new architecture for a pool of centralized storage. A SAN usually includes multiple servers working off a centralized data store made up of highly reliable and redundant hardware, including RAID. The object is to provide a single point of storage with sophisticated management. Fibre channel is an important part of the SAN concept, because it works with existing data storage technologies, including SCSI and network connections.
Storage Area Network, a method of sharing large amounts of data storage capacity.
Storage Area Network. Simply put, this is the evolutionary step of connectivity provided by Fibre Channel between host and storage. This connectivity provides a true network of storage devices and the hosts that access the storage.
storage area network. A dedicated network for storage operations, whose primary purpose is to transfer data between computer systems and storage devices. SANs provide the ability to share a single storage array across many servers or applications.
High-speed network that establishes direct connections between storage systems and servers or clients using interconnect technologies such as routers, hubs, switches and gateways.
Storage Area Network; a network infrastructure of shared multi-host storage, linking all storage devices as well as interconnecting remote sites.
Storage-area network. A network dedicated to providing and managing storage and backup for business or carrier networks. Because they're dedicated networks, SANs offer greater capacity and better performance than traditional storage and backup techniques, in which mainframes, servers, or other host computers are attached directly to disk and tape drives and managed via special software. Most SANs today are based on Fibre Channel switches and hubs, configured to occupy the "back end" portion of a network, behind the data center or server farm.
Storage Area Network, a special purpose network that connects various data storage devices with associated data servers. Typically, a storage area network is part of the overall network of computing resources for large foodservice and hotel operators.
Storage Area Network. A network of storage devices. Most often, Fibre Channel based networking, using a Fibre Channel switch between host and storage.
Storage Area Network. A network topology which has a series of servers linked through a series of switches through a dedicated network to a central storage. This allows all servers to access a large storage and improves access times. This topology would be most suitable in a distributed PACS, with the PACS servers at remote locations accessing a central data store. A dedicated high speed network, usually fibre channel connects the storage elements (RAID, JBOD and tape), to the servers. See Network Attached Storage (NAS), Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) and Just a Bunch Of Disks (JBOD).
Storage Area Network. A managed, high-speed network that enables any-to-any interconnection of heterogeneous servers and storage systems.
A network of storage disks. In large enterprises, a SAN connects multiple computers to a centralized pool of disk storage.
Storage Area Network. A high speed network of shared storage devices.
Acronym for Storage Area Network, a network of shared data storage space; also an acronym for Secure Area Network.
Storage area network. A dedicated network that connects storage devices and servers in a pool, providing consolidated storage and storage management.
Refers to Storage Area Network.
Storage Area Network - a network with emphasis on storage with a defined protocol for the infrastructure.
Storage area network; providing back-up by linking different storage areas together to allow fast access and transfer of data.
Storage Area Network. SANs allow users to store large amounts of data off their super-crowded corporate networks at orders of magnitude (10x) lower cost. SANs make use of the same type of fiber-optics that revolutionized long-distance tele/data communications. Essentially, SANs combine data management with the physical connections and optical infrastructure so that data can be housed off-site and still be easily accessible to users within a corporate network via servers. SANs will soon provide any-to-any connections, that means they allow any kind of client computing device (PDA's, notebooks, wireless phone) to connect to information on any type of storage computer.
Short for Storage Area Network - a hosting solution in which servers are attached to multiple disk arrays, tape libraries, or other storage devices.
storage area network. A high-speed communications network optimized for storage.
A storage area network (SAN) is a specialized network that provides access to high performance and highly available storage subsystems using block storage protocols. The SAN is made up of specific devices, such as host bus adapters (HBAs) in the host servers, switches that help route storage traffic, and disk storage subsystems. The main characteristic of a SAN is that the storage subsystems are generally available to multiple hosts at the same time, which makes them scalable and flexible. Compare with NAS and DAS.
Storage Area Network Group of machines with large disks in RAID configuraion used for off-server backup.
Storage Area Network - high-speed connection between servers (server farm) and storage devices (disk farm).
(Storage Area Network): Connects a group of computers to high-capacity storage devices. May be incorporated into local area networks (LAN), metropolitan area networks (MAN), and wide area networks (WAN).