Storage Area Networks (SAN)
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The explosion of data in today's networked computing environments stresses the abilities of many Information Technology groups while the demand to store and access data doubles each year.
Since information, and the storage infrastructure that holds it, are critical to a company's success, the management of the storage becomes a serious issue, where reliability, availability and improved disaster recovery are all key factors.
Documents, databases, web pages, and other sorts of media each have their own rules for accessibility, retention and backup. Estimates of the cost to manage storage range from 5 to 10 times the actual cost of the storage hardware itself.
The Storage Area Network (SAN) is a dedicated network devoted to data storage and is a solution that meets the storage requirements of many businesses today. SANs address many of the reliability and availability issues for data storage. Essentially, SANs apply networking methodologies to the problems of storage, expanding the management possibilities for storage.
Network Attached Storage(NAS)
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Synchronection 2 consists of Synchronix storage subsystems combined with high performance network file servers running the NAS Star operating system to create a highly flexible network attached storage system. The data centric design of Synchronection 2 provides a central repository that attaches directly to the network. This provides a much more effective method of adding storage capacity with greatly improved performance and dramatically lower total cost of ownership compared to traditional server-attached RAID technology.