Introduction to Storage Networking
Storage Networking Applications
Database Applications
ƒDatabase applications:
ƒ Financial databases
ƒ Supply chain/inventory management
ƒ Data warehousing and data mining
ƒ B2B and B2C web portals
ƒ ERP applications
ƒ Email and messaging
ƒKey benefits of SAN:
ƒ Continuous uptime
ƒ Scalable capacity
ƒ Scalable performance
Database applications often require the enhanced reliability and performance
that SANs offer:
Continuous uptime is a requirement, but so is cost containment.
Capacity must be able to scale both quickly and massively.
Performance must scale to match capacity: databases must often be
clustered to provide scalable performance, and I/O latency must be
reduced as much as possible.