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ALSO CALLED: SAN Architecture, Storage Network, Server Area Networks, Storage SANs, and Storage Area Networks
DEFINITION: A SAN island is a storage area network (SAN) that exists as a discrete, isolated entity within a larger SAN. The components of a SAN island are usually all located in the same building, or even within a single room.

SAN islands typically evolve within organizations as they grow. In a  … 
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Worldwide Disk Storage Systems 2008-2012 Forecast: Content-Centric Customers -- Reshaping Market Demand
sponsored by Ocarina Networks
WHITE PAPER: This study provides a forecast of the worldwide disk storage systems market for 2008 2012 as well as discussion of assumptions and major market trends.
Posted: 19 Nov 2008 | Published: 19 Nov 2008
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Concentric Hosted Exchange Whitepaper
sponsored by Concentric
WHITE PAPER: Concentric Hosted Exchange is a fast, reliable and affordable solution for email, calendaring, collaboration, and mobility based on Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Microsoft Outlook® 2007.
Posted: 19 Nov 2008 | Published: 19 Nov 2008
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More Functionality, Less Infrastructure: Managed It with Netboot/i™
sponsored by Double-Take Software
WHITE PAPER: This paper describes netBoot/i software that provide a great deal of functionality easily by using existing technology infrastructure.
Posted: 19 Nov 2008 | Published: 19 Nov 2008
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Best Practices for IT Consolidation with HP and VMware
sponsored by VMware, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: HP and VMware have the technology and services you need to put virtualization to work to consolidate your IT environment in a manner that reduces costs, simplifies your IT environment and increases business agility.
Posted: 19 Nov 2008 | Published: 18 Nov 2008
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Vancouver Canucks Virtualize with HP and VMware
sponsored by VMware, Inc.
CASE STUDY: The Vancouver Canucks wanted to leverage a hardware refresh budget to implement a new approach to their technology architecture and to meet this requirement Canucks choose HP solution.
Posted: 19 Nov 2008 | Published: 18 Nov 2008
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HP Virtualization with Intel and VMware: End-to-end Virtualization of IT Resources
sponsored by VMware, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: The VMware partnership and technical collaboration with HP and Intel enables your organization to deploy a reliable and scalable platform for building a complete virtualized data center solution.
Posted: 19 Nov 2008 | Published: 18 Nov 2008
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10 Ways to Get More from Your IT Budget
sponsored by VMware, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are always looking for new and innovative ways to cut costs, without affecting business output or future growth, This paper contains some well known cost savings opportunities.
Posted: 14 Nov 2008 | Published: 11 Nov 2008
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Energy Efficient Data Storage Systems
sponsored by Atrato, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper presents the power consumption characteristics of several types of modern disk-based data storage systems in large data centers.
Posted: 14 Nov 2008 | Published: 13 Nov 2008
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Virtual Machines Are Not Free
sponsored by VKernel
WHITE PAPER: This paper explains the advantages that virtual machine provides to the IT department.
Posted: 14 Nov 2008 | Published: 14 Nov 2008
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Tape Encryption: Learn how Cisco MDS enables an efficient and a cost effective Storage Area Network-based solution
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WEBCAST: Watch this webcast for expert tips on securing your SAN environment and meeting government regulations. Learn about a technique that transparently encrypts data inside the storage environment without slowing or disrupting business critical applications.
Posted: 14 Nov 2008 | Premieres: 03 Dec 2008, 11:00 EST (16:00 GMT)
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Reducing Server Total Cost of Ownership with VMware Virtualization Software
sponsored by VMware, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Technology purchases are often quantified simply by hardware and software costs. But there's more to it. This TCO study takes a holistic view.
Posted: 13 Nov 2008 | Published: 13 Nov 2008
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Ocarina Networks Addresses the Need for More Efficient Way to Store Data
sponsored by Ocarina Networks
WHITE PAPER: Ocarina Optimizer is an appliance that runs the optimization algorithms, it resides in the network, out-of-band, and performance optimization as a post process unlike deduplication.
Posted: 13 Nov 2008 | Published: 13 Nov 2008
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eGuide: Data Deduplication for Primary Data
sponsored by Ocarina Networks
WHITE PAPER: This E-Guide will explore if Data Deduplication is suitable for primary data and what vendors are doing to keep performance high for your company's backups.
Posted: 13 Nov 2008 | Published: 13 Nov 2008
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Disaster Recovery Services FAQ
sponsored by i365, A Seagate Company
PODCAST: Dick Benton, senior consultant with Glasshouse Technologies, answers frequently asked questions about outsourcing disaster recovery in this podcast.
Posted: 12 Nov 2008 | Premiered: 11 Nov 2008
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Comcast Revolutionizes Network Performance Data Analysis with Vertica
sponsored by Vertica Systems
CASE STUDY: After briefly considering and rejecting an open-source tool, Harvell and his team selected Vertica Analytic Database 2.0, as it is a high-speed, relational SQL database management system.
Posted: 12 Nov 2008 | Published: 12 Nov 2008
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Top 5 Data Migration Tools
sponsored by Channel Media Group
WHITE PAPER: Get a quick review of the top 5 data migration tools in the market.
Posted: 11 Nov 2008 | Published: 06 Nov 2008
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TechNet Webcast: Protect SQL Server 2008 with Data Protection Manager 2007
sponsored by Microsoft
WEBCAST: Data Protection Manager 2007 uses wizards and workflows to help ensure that you can protect your organization's data, and it doesn't require an advanced degree, training, or certification in storage and backup technologies.
Posted: 11 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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eGuide: Blade Servers Trends
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
WHITE PAPER: The server type selected for a consolidation or virtualization project lays the foundation for the entire plan, it even impacts the benefits you'll see from the investment.
Posted: 11 Nov 2008 | Published: 11 Nov 2008
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Backup and Recovery: A Guide for the Law Firm technical decision maker
sponsored by i365, A Seagate Company
WHITE PAPER: EVault Software is a highly comprehensive backup and recovery platform that provides law firms with the building blocks for successful data protection-from high performance and efficiency to ease of use, flexibility and scalability.
Posted: 11 Nov 2008 | Published: 11 Nov 2008
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Virtualized Infrastructure Management with LSI StoreAge SVM
sponsored by LSI Corporation
WEBCAST: This Webcast highlights a new solution with improved and secure tools to manage large SANs for overall better utilization of SAN assets.
Posted: 10 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Auto-Snapshot Manager/ VMware® Edition: Automated, Integrated, And Scalable Protection Of Virtual Machines
sponsored by Dell | EqualLogic
PRODUCT LITERATURE: Auto-Snapshot Manager/VMware Edition (ASM/VE) is a unique and innovative data protection feature of the Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series iSCSI SAN that enables fast online backups and quick restores of VMware virtual machines and VMFS file systems.
Posted: 10 Nov 2008 | Published: 10 Nov 2008
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Integrating Dell Equallogic™ Sans with Citrix XENSERVER: Realizing Virtualization's Full Potential
sponsored by Dell | EqualLogic
WHITE PAPER: XenServer enables consolidation of server and other infrastructure resources, by combining servers and storage into resource pools that can be apportioned to the applications with the highest business need.
Posted: 10 Nov 2008 | Published: 10 Nov 2008
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Comprehensive Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
sponsored by Dell | EqualLogic
WEBCAST: With the growth of virtual server deployments come new challenges to effectively protect virtualized data sets. Traditional backup and recovery methods become less effective as the virtual infrastructure scales, creating the need for more scalable...
Posted: 10 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Data Protection for Virtual Server Environments: Exploring Options and Technologies for Backup and Recovery of Virtual Machines
sponsored by Datalink/NetApp
WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides practical advice and considerations surrounding backup and recovery of virtual server infrastructures.
Posted: 05 Nov 2008 | Published: 05 Nov 2008
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Fibre Channel over Ethernet Storage Networking Evolution
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This document discusses the need for unified I/O and describes the phases of unified I/O along with FCoE deployment and the benefits of each phase.
Posted: 04 Nov 2008 | Published: 04 Nov 2008
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SAN DEFINITION (continued): …  large SAN consisting of islands, the individual islands are interconnected and can share data. Connecting SAN islands together in an efficient manner can present a challenge to a growing organization. There are several ways in which SAN island interconnection can be accomplished. Fibre Channel's fast data transfer makes it a popular technology choice.

Even though a SAN island is physically located at a specific point, it may be used for more than one application, by more than one … 
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