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Are You Ready for a SAN? How a Storage Area Network Can Improve Your Life

Overview If your IT organization is struggling to manage growing data in a direct-attached storage environment, it might be time to migrate to a storage area network (SAN).

There are several ways that a SAN can dramatically improve your storage management situation:

Improve efficiency of storage utilization
Reduce time and cost of server management
Simplify storage management
Enhance data protection and availability
Enable virtualized server infrastructures

This white paper delves into these areas, illustrating just how a SAN can reduce storage- and server-related time and costs, while improving data protection and availability.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	XIOtech	File Format	HTML & PDF
Date Published	October 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Storage Management, Data Center, SANs, Storage Consolidation, Virtualization

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