1.2. Why Are SANs Needed?
Virtually every sector of commerce has an immense requirement for capacity, speed, and reliability in storing data. Government and education, although restrained by budget considerations, have the same requirement. And every enterprise is concerned with managing storage costs.
Capacity. In traditional business applications, simple growth of customer and manufacturing data drives the need for capacity. Business consolidations and worldwide commerce also drive the need. More data means more disk drives, greater capacity drives, and more densely populated enclosures to hold them.
New approaches to running traditional businesses drive a demand for storage. For example, data warehousing and data mining are methodologies ...
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