In Its Own Place Storage area networks are effective storage solutions, but making them work seamlessly requires planning and hard work. Interoperability suffers for throughput, and managing them isn't for the weak of heart.
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Business partners, suppliers, and customers often demand near-continuous access to business data. This means that data-storage systems must be designed to maximize data storage and access tasks. An increasingly popular storage optimization strategy is the use of a storage area network, which makes every storage device on a network accessible to all of a network's servers. Storage area networks are relatively simple in concept, although they're not quite so simple to implement. A SAN is a subnetwork made up of heterogeneous storage resources and servers tied together with a high-speed connection.