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Every department in your firm relies on crucial applications that must live in a stable and expandable network environment. Your data is stored on a network that not only uses more disk space, but one which may also require sophisticated backup and restoration capability. Your users may not only be increasing in number, but also increasing in places they do business; your network needs to accommodate this as well.
As reliance on mission critical data increases, the importance of highly available, highly efficient data storage systems becomes vital to the survival of a business. When data is unavailable, the company loses money.
A Storage Area Network, or SAN, is one way to address this problem. Simply put, a SAN is a dedicated network for storage. By implementing a SAN, you can centrally locate the data from all of your servers into a dedicated fiber channel network. A common misconception is that Storage Area Networks are just for enterprise class companies. There are solutions that can be scaled to smaller businesses, designed to be cost efficient by reducing downtime and eliminating duplicated hardware across the network. It reduces the complexity of your network by centrally locating storage resources to a dedicated network. Less equipment per server to manage means a lower administration cost. All of these factors lead to a lower Total Cost of Ownership, which ultimately increases the bottom line of any business.
SANs play an important role in disaster recovery and disaster tolerance. Adding a tape library to the SAN, servers avoid using backup agents that have to compete for LAN bandwidth by going to the SAN instead. Servers can now backup hundreds of gigabytes of data in just a few hours instead of all night (and sometimes into the next morning).
SANs are built on dedicated fiber channel networks. For disaster tolerance, fiber channel network designs have built in resilience that can guarantee virtually 100% uptime by quickly re-routing traffic to redundant paths in the event of a component failure. In the event of a catastrophe, a long distance SAN allows for offsite replication of live data so that a business can continue right where it left off.
At Polar Systems, our staff has been comprehensively trained to design strategies that keep your network flexible, available, and highly efficient. By allowing us to focus on your network, you are able to focus on your business.
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