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Driving Advancements in Storage Ecosystem Management and Security

Overview As more and more organizations implement Storage Area Networks (SANs) to bolster their IT infrastructures, they are realizing a wide range of business benefits. Two of the most valuable benefits are the flexibility and cost savings brought about by a centralized storage management strategy. However, faced with increasingly complex business requirements and exponential increases in data volumes, these organizations are searching for even broader management solutions that cover not only SAN environments, but the entire storage area as well.

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Publisher	Brocade Communications Systems	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	October 2002	Downloads	1
Format	White Papers
Topics	Storage Management

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