What is a SAN A SAN, or storage area network, is a dedicated network that is separate from LANs and WANs. It generally serves to interconnect the storage-related resources that are connected to one or more servers. Though typically spoken of in terms of hardware, SANs very often include specialized software for their management, monitoring and configuration.
SANs can provide many benefits.
Centralizing data storage operations and their management is certainly one of the chief reasons that SANs are being specified and deployed today. SANs can dramatically reduce the management costs and complexity of these environments while providing significant technical advantages. Dot Hill Systems Corp.