How will the solution grow to meet our evolving business needs?
•SANs can grow quickly: – Servers and storage can scale independently – No downtime during installation
• SANs provide enhanced connectivity: – Data replication and resource sharing – Centralized management – IP SANs will enable global connectivity
• NAS appliances enable on-the-fly capacity expansion
Storage networking has value beyond the data center:
Workgroups and remote locations often have challenges that can be best addressed by storage networking solutions.
Storage networking can enable new applications that are not currently being addressed:
Collaborative computing Content distribution Decision support
The fact that storage networking enables new applications in addition to addressing old needs means that it is even more critical for solution providers to “think out of the box”.