The Case For SAN Expansion
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The massive shift in business toward electronic transactions has built momentum for high-availability storage. Consequently, vendors in the storage market are developing and shipping a variety of applications designed to enable business continuance solutions in storage environments. SAN extension is a key element in many business continuance methodologies. The growth of Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks (SANs) is creating a demand for technologies and products to interconnect SAN islands within Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs), Wide Area Networks (WANs), and global networks. As Fibre Channel SAN deployments continue to accelerate, and as storage consolidation, disaster recovery, and business continuance applications exploit these SAN infrastructures, demand for interconnection of these SAN islands will grow.
SAN extension is a key element in many business continuance methodologies. Interconnected SANs enable the deployment solutions for disaster recovery, backup, and resource consolidation.