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Disk Mirroring - Local or Remote

Overview Advances in storage technologies and significant breakthroughs in both networking technologies and telecommunications make disk mirroring an important tool for data replication, migration, and consolidation as well as backup/restore and business continuation/ disaster recovery. This white paper describes the factors impacting information storage and access in enterprise environments, defines disk mirroring, and explains how it applies to remote storage applications. In addition, the paper presents typical disk mirroring applications and explains the role CNT storage networking products can play in enhancing remote disk mirroring effectiveness.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Computer Network Technology (CNT)	File Format	PDF
Date Published	August 2003	Downloads	41
Format	White Papers
Topics	Back-up, Disaster Recovery, Storage Management

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