ABSTRACT

Until recently, people who manage enterprise data networks and people who manage enterprise storage have had little in common. Each has pursued a separate path, with technology and solutions that were unique to their particular environments. Enterprise network managers have been busy building a secure and switched infrastructure to meet the increasing bandwidth and access demands of corporate intranets and extranets. Storage management has been more closely related with particular applications like data backup and data mirroring. Enterprises have built standalone storage area networks (SANs) to manage the exponentially increasing volume of data that must be stored, retrieved, and safeguarded.