Introduction to Storage Networking Storage Networking Applications
Database Applications
Database applications: Financial databases Supply chain/inventory management Data warehousing and data mining B2B and B2C web portals ERP applications Email and messaging
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.