storage area networks direct-attached
Understanding the Alternatives for Extending Storage-Area Networks
White Paper To accommodate the vast amounts of data needed throughout enterprises, many IT organizations are switching from direct-attached storage to storage-area networks (SANs). In the latter model, storage resources are detached from the host servers and... [10 Apr 2008]
How Cisco Multilayer Director Switch Operates With Other SAN Switches During SAN Migration
White Paper Cisco Systems IT has long been a proponent of Storage Area Networks (SANs) over the less efficient and more complex Direct-Attached Storage (DAS)-based networks. The majority of early Cisco SAN efforts used the McDATA Enterprise Director 6064... [04 Mar 2008]
Army Corps of Engineers Uses iSCSI SAN to Meet Critical Storage Challenges
White Paper Despite having owned a fibre channel Storage Area Network (SAN) for six years, the Huntington District Army Corps of Engineers was still using Direct Attached Storage (DAS) for the bulk of their data, which includes critical engineering files... [29 Nov 2007]
DAS, NAS or SAN: Choosing the Right Storage Technology for Your Organization
White Paper There are a variety of options available, the most prevalent being Direct-Attached Storage (DAS), Network-Attached Storage (NAS) and Storage Area Networks (SAN). Although the need for storage is evident, it is not always clear which solution is... [23 Aug 2007]
Disk-Assisted Backup White Paper
White Paper Nor can they implement a direct-attached tape device to every host. With shrinking backup windows and increasing amounts of data, users are adding more tape drives and implementing faster backup network topologies, including Storage Area Networks... [27 Sep 2006]
Benefits of Moving From Windows NT to Windows 2000/ Windows Server 2003 With a Networked Storage Architecture
White Paper Following the industry trend of cutting costs through IT infrastructure consolidation, many companies are considering moving from Direct-Attached Storage (DAS) architectures to networked storage architectures, such as Network Attached Storage (NAS... [02 Mar 2006]
Data protection finds its way to Dell storage
News In addition to supporting direct-attached storage (DAS), network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area netork (SAN) configurations, GalaxyExpress offers disk-to-disk and disk-to-tape features. Last year, Dell partnered with EMC to develop and... [17 May 2004]
Implementing PowerEdge Clusters and PowerVault SANs
White Paper The first installment of integrating PowerEdge Clusters with PowerVault Storage Area Networks (SANs) introduced Dell's supported Microsoft Cluster Server Fibre Channel cluster configurations using direct-attached storage, SAN-attached storage, and... [01 Mar 2004]
Consolidating Tape Storage
White Paper Networked storage of some kind is often the only feasible option since the extremely high concentrations of data can make direct attached deployments impossible. Storage Area Networks (SAN) because of any-to-any’ connectivity between servers and... [01 Mar 2004]
Security Consideration for IP SANs
White Paper IP Storage Area Networks allow small- and medium-sized business that until now could not afford a SAN to break free of the limits of direct-attached storage. But as often seems true, good things come with strings attached. [24 Feb 2004]
VERITAS Backup Exec 9.0 for Windows Servers ServerFree Option
White Paper Networked attached storage (NAS) and storage area networks (SANs) will eventually replace Direct Attached Storage (DAS) for daily operations within medium to large organizations. Storage consolidation is a reoccurring theme among businesses with... [24 Feb 2004]
Bringing Affordable SANs to Small and Midsize Businesses
White Paper It is widely recognized that the traditional model of direct attached storage (DAS) fails to meet these requirements. Storage area networks (SANs) fulfill these requirements, but their high cost and complexity keeps them beyond the reach of most... [24 Feb 2004]
The Pirus Storage Utility Switch: Convergence Toward an Intelligent Infrastructure
White Paper Storage networking solutions, such as Storage Area Networks (SANs) and Network Attached Storage (NAS), have enabled organizations to deploy large amounts of storage more effectively across a variety of users and applications. [24 Feb 2004]
Answering the Challenges of Enterprise Storage
White Paper This white paper examines the alternatives to solving these problems, with emphasis on the benefits of HP's intelligent storage area network-based (SAN) architecture.Storage area networks, and especially HP’s equation architecture, offer the most... [24 Feb 2004]
Intelligent Storage Platform
White Paper Storage networking solutions, such as Storage Area Networks (SANs) and Network Attached Storage (NAS), have enabled organizations to deploy large amounts of storage more effectively for use in various application and computing environments. [14 Aug 2003]
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