Storage Networking Simplifies Data Access Management

2007-04-12 11:34:06

( Business )



The demand for management of stored data has risen as business-to-consumer and business-to-business e-commerce mature. For this reason, storage networking has become a necessity for most organizations. Companies' utilization of storage networking to manage access to data has increased reliability and performance. Storage networking has also generated cost savings due to the reduction or elimination of down time.

Storage networking involves consolidating huge amounts of data and distributing them. It allows you to manage and protect data in a central location, while users have shared access to storage by multiple computers. This results to increased efficiency and availability of stored data. Storage networking allows pooling of data for easy access and retrieval, even if these are located in independent storage devices under different protocols. Backup and recovery, data migration, disaster recovery, and data mirroring are some of the information management functions that a storage networking facility can perform efficiently and quickly.

Storage networking includes back-up systems that are not LAN-based and don't require being housed together with networking servers. This set-up places storage networking devices between networking servers and the central storage, instead of allowing networking servers to directly access data storage systems. The network set-up can be designed as shared-access or switched, or a hybrid of both.

If you want to maximize the potential of a storage networking, you can devise a management plan to optimize the settings and handling of data. The documentation allows quicker recovery, when error or failure occurs. Your plan must primarily focus on the optimization of your storage. You can utilize zoning techniques to divide storage space into segments. You may also incorporate in your plan the tasks of making networking management easier by deploying certain networking protocols. And you can use management software that can provide you with a consolidated and simplified method to manage all your storage networking devices.


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