Storage Area Network

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1. A Storage Area Network or SAN is a high speed specialized network that provides access to high performance and highly available storage sub-systems.

Related Terms: Cluster, Network Attached Storage.




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BCMBoK 4: Business Continuity Strategy CL 2D: Intermediate (DR)

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2. Storage Area Network or SAN is a high-speed, special purpose, dedicated network that supports communications between computers and storage servers in support of data-intensive applications such as inventory management, credit and billing management, receivables management, customer relationship management, and supply chain management.

A SAN is much more complex than simple network-attached storage (NAS) and provides application users with much faster access to databases, SANs also provide for centralized management of critical data, including accessibility, security, and backup.

Source: YourDictionary.com


2. In computing, a storage area network (SAN) is an architecture to attach remote computer storage devices (such as disk arrays, tape libraries and optical jukeboxes) to servers in such a way that, to the operating system, the devices appear as locally attached.

Source: Wikipedia