SAN technology breaks this physical distance limitation by allowing you to locate your storage miles away as opposed to only a few feet. It is common to find NT Administrators, Novell Administrators or Unix Administrators all in the same company. For an organization's networking needs, you will often find a Network Manager or Network Group. They maintain the installed base of hubs, switches and routers. The Network Manager ensures the network is operating effectively and makes plans for future growth.
Few organizations have groups whose responsibilities include managing the storage resources.
It is ironic that a company's most crucial resource, data storage, generally may have no formal group to manage it effectively. As is, each type of system administrator is required to monitor the storage attached to their servers, perform backups and plan for growth. Storage Management in a SAN environment could offload the responsibility of maintaining the storage devices to a dedicated group. The group could allocate disk space to any server regardless of the type. The SAN managers could actively monitor the storage systems of all platforms and take immediate corrective action, whenever needed.