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simpleSAN
Tape Library Sharing! Tape
Library sharing is a major, compelling reason to implement
a Storage Area Network (SAN). It is one of the fastest ways
to benefit from the investment and realize a return investment
almost immediately. Rather than having tape drives attached
directly to individual servers which causes your IT staff
to burn cycles being "tape jockeys", sharing a tape
library with multiple heterogeneous servers allows you to
consolidate your data protection and it's management. All
the while still having the same speed and functionality as
if the tape drive is directly attached to the server.  A
SAN provides the data delivery vehicle necessary to reduce
today's ever shrinking backup window.
With iSCSI, you can implement and take advantage of a fully
functional SAN backup configuration over your existing Ethernet
infrastructure. Since iSCSI sends data at the block-level,
faster backup speeds are realized than that of the traditional
client / server configurations (where a tape drive is connected
to a "backup server" and the clients have to package
their data then send it to the server for protection). With
a iSCSI SAN, sending the data directly to the tape drive means
less CPU and I/O cycles necessary to perform the backup. And
faster backups mean faster restores.
simpleSAN's experience and expertise
is here to help you realize this cost saving method. Our staff
will design and install a solution that meets and exceeds
your data management requirements.
iSCSI, all the availability,
scaleability and manageability benefits of fibre channel SANs
at a fraction of the cost and without the intense learning
curve.
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"In
case you've been marooned on a giant glacier near Antarctica
with Ernest Shackleford and crew, we'll list for you why iSCSI
is good for the enterprise.
1. Standards.
2. Standards.
3. Standards.
Get the idea? You and your networking counterparts know and
love IP, and iSCSI will not require spending on training and
deployment. That leads to point No. 4, cost savings. And don't
forget that Ethernet can reach speeds as fast as 10Gbps, a
lot faster than Fibre Channel will ever go."
Scott Tyler Shafer - Senior writer, InfoWorld
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