It doesn’t always have to be a SAN
It doesn’t always have to be a SAN
1 Pagesbackground Storage area networks are quite expensive due to the cost intensive, special server and switch components as well as the fi ber glass cables required. LINBIT has developed a cost effective alternative that allows using COTS hardware and conventional Ethernet. This IP based iSCSI storage area network was fi rst used at Salinen Austria AG. business challenge Salinen Austria AG has servers installed at two different sites, located approximately 12 miles apart from each other. The storage capacity of the company’s IT infrastructure was originally designed for 2 TB pf net data, which given the annual increase in data volume of 30 percent, was only going to be suffi cient until 2009. After that, their servers were going to need to be upgraded again. Thanks to LINBIT’s sol
