Introduction to Storage Networking Storage Networking Applications
Imaging Applications
Imaging applications: Digital media production Pre-press production Document imaging and archiving Medical and scientific imaging
Key benefits of SAN: Satisfies large capacity requirements Fast transfer of large files
Sharing across heterogeneous OS platforms
Imaging applications require high-performance storage I/O: High-quality, high-resolution images consume storage capacity quickly, even when compressed. Digital production and post-production require rapid access to very large files.
Image manipulation includes such processes as compression, resizing, image enhancement, and colour correction. All of these are CPU- intensive operations, and therefore images must often be accessible to multiple servers to allow scalable operations. Images also frequently have to be shared and manipulated across multiple operating systems.