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Article: Maximizing FC SAN investments with iSCSI.(Storage Networking)
- Article from:
- Computer Technology Review
- Article date:
- November 1, 2003
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Businesses have made significant investments in their Fibre Channel storage area networks. The challenge is to leverage the FC SAN so that these investments in capital equipment, staff and infrastructure deliver ever-increasing value to the business. The majority of the FC SAN investments are not raw disk capacity, but infrastructure costs such as: disaster recovery mechanisms, high availability systems, backup, monitoring, security and resource allocation tools. Equipment investments include: FC switches, routers, storage enclosures, host HBAs and backup devices. Soft dollars include management, staff, software agents, upgrades, maintenance and facility.
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