SAN (storage area network) - Term Description

What is: SAN (storage area network)

Description:
A networking concept in which the software has knowledge of the quantity and value of data stored in mass storage devices and the characteristics of those storage devices. In SAN systems, the software must act as an IT manager and know how the data travels and the backup strategy, data recovery, and specific attributes of the software to preserve and reconstruct the environment, in the event of a failure or system reconfiguration.

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Category: S


S-AIT (Sony Advanced Intelligent Tape)	SAN (storage area network)	SANmark
SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment or SATA)	SBus	scheduled backup
SCSI	secondary port	sector
Serial ATA	serial attached SCSI	server
serverless backup	SFP (small form-factor pluggable)	SGNP (secure grid naming protocol)
Shortcuts	SLR	SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association)
soft sector	SPARC (Scalable Processor ARChitecture)	SPC (Storage Performance Council)
SRAM (static random access memory)	SRM (storage resource management)	SSD (solid state disk)
SSF (Supported Solutions Forum)	SSP (storage service provider)	storage capacity
storage density	storage location	Storage Medium
Strings	SuperDLT	Super DLTtape
Syntax	system backup