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ALSO CALLED: SAN Architecture, Storage Network, Server Area Networks, Storage SANs, and Storage Area Networks
DEFINITION: A SAN island is a storage area network (SAN) that exists as a discrete, isolated entity within a larger SAN. The components of a SAN island are usually all located in the same building, or even within a single room.

SAN islands typically evolve within organizations as they grow. In a  … 
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Storage Economics Podcast: Ideas and Tactics to Reduce Storage Total Cost of Ownership
sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems
PODCAST: David Merrill, Chief Storage Economist at Hitachi Data Systems, discusses concepts and principles around storage TCO, ideas and tactics to reduce the cost of your storage architecture, and what the analysts are saying about storage...
Posted: 29 Dec 2008 | Premiered: 24 Dec 2008
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Sun Storage 7000 Video
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
WEBCAST: Discover how the Sun Storage 7000 can radically simplify your storage, improving performance and cutting costs.
Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Tips for protecting the edge: remote-office data protection
sponsored by Overland Storage
PODCAST: This Podcast provides storage pros with some effective approaches on how to incorporate and manage remote backups centrally from a main data center.
Posted: 09 Dec 2008 | Premiered: 08 Dec 2008
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Podcast: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Virtualization - In One Hour
sponsored by Datalink and Hitachi Data Systems
PODCAST: Download this Podcast to learn how virtualization has progressed from vaporware to actual products storage managers are using to centralize data, add flexibility and change the economics of storage.
Posted: 05 Dec 2008 | Premiered: 05 Dec 2008
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Virtualization - In One Hour
sponsored by Datalink and Hitachi Data Systems
VIDEO: View this Videocast to learn how virtualization has progressed from vaporware to actual products storage managers are using to centralize data, add flexibility and change the economics of storage.
Posted: 05 Dec 2008 | Premiered: 05 Dec 2008
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VMWare/Dell EQL Simple, Affordable, Integrated Disaster Recovery and Data Protection for Virtual Infrastructures
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
WEBCAST: Virtualized iSCSI SANs are increasingly being chosen for virtual datacenter deployments because they help simplify storage management and overcome performance, scalability and cost barriers of traditional SAN architectures.
Posted: 02 Dec 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Maximizing the Benefits of Virtualization with Dell and Citrix
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
WEBCAST: Join us for this live eSeminar to learn important considerations in your virtualized server and storage environments.
Posted: 02 Dec 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Simple, Affordable Disaster Recovery Automation in the Virtualized IT Datacenter
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
WEBCAST: Virtualized iSCSI SANs are increasingly being chosen for virtual data center deployments because they help simplify storage management and help overcome performance, scalability and cost barriers of traditional SAN architectures.
Posted: 02 Dec 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Is Your Mission Critical Environment Risk Free?
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WEBCAST: This webcast explains the 7 vital components that make up a mission critical environment, what are some practical first steps to take and where are the areas of vulnerability.
Posted: 01 Dec 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Episode 3 - Verifiable Disaster Recovery
sponsored by Compellent
PODCAST: This podcast explores the importance of implementing and testing your company's disaster recovery plan.
Posted: 26 Nov 2008 | Premiered: 26 Nov 2008
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Episode 2 - Simplified Multisite Replication
sponsored by Compellent
PODCAST: Analyst Mark Peters explores Compellent's replication and disaster recovery tools by examining how they work for Kansas Spine Hospital.
Posted: 26 Nov 2008 | Premiered: 26 Nov 2008
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Taking Your IT Consolidation to the Next Step with VMware, HP and Intel
sponsored by VMware, Inc.
WEBCAST: Virtualization allows you to pool and share your IT resources to reduce costs, simplify your IT environment and increase business agility.
Posted: 25 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Efficient SAN Based Tape Encryption with Curtis Preston
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WEBCAST: Watch this webcast for expert tips on securing your SAN environment and meeting government regulations. Learn about a technique that transparently encrypts data inside the storage environment without slowing or disrupting business critical applications.
Posted: 14 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Disaster Recovery Services FAQ
sponsored by i365, A Seagate Company
PODCAST: Dick Benton, senior consultant with Glasshouse Technologies, answers frequently asked questions about outsourcing disaster recovery in this podcast.
Posted: 12 Nov 2008 | Premiered: 11 Nov 2008
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TechNet Webcast: Protect SQL Server 2008 with Data Protection Manager 2007
sponsored by Microsoft
WEBCAST: Data Protection Manager 2007 uses wizards and workflows to help ensure that you can protect your organization's data, and it doesn't require an advanced degree, training, or certification in storage and backup technologies.
Posted: 11 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Virtualized Infrastructure Management with LSI StoreAge SVM
sponsored by LSI Corporation
WEBCAST: This Webcast highlights a new solution with improved and secure tools to manage large SANs for overall better utilization of SAN assets.
Posted: 10 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Comprehensive Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
WEBCAST: With the growth of virtual server deployments come new challenges to effectively protect virtualized data sets. Traditional backup and recovery methods become less effective as the virtual infrastructure scales, creating the need for more scalable...
Posted: 10 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Podcast: Cutting Infrastructure Costs by Stopping Unwanted Mail at the Perimeter: Introduction to Stopping Unwanted Mail
sponsored by Sendmail, Inc.
PODCAST: This new Ask the Expert podcast series focuses on how businesses can significantly cut costs by modernizing their messaging infrastructure and stopping unwanted mail from ever touching it.
Posted: 03 Nov 2008 | Premiered: 31 Oct 2008
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PODCAST: Virtualized Infrastructure Management with LSI StoreAge SVM
sponsored by LSI Corporation
PODCAST: This Podcast highlights a new solution with improved and secure tools to manage large SANs for overall better utilization of SAN assets.
Posted: 31 Oct 2008 | Premiered: 07 Oct 2008
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Minimize Risk with Sun StorageTek T1000b Tape Drive
sponsored by Sun StorageTek
VIDEOCAST: The Sun StorageTek T1000KB tape drive delivers the industry's highest capacity, making it ideal for 24x7 datacenter operations requiring high duty cycle data storage and retrieval.
Posted: 24 Oct 2008 | Premiered: 23 Oct 2008
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Protect Your Investment with Sun StorageTek T1000b Tape Drive
sponsored by Sun StorageTek
VIDEOCAST: Watch this videocast to learn how the access-centric StorageTek T-series tape drives provide you with the industry's fastest access to data (T9840D) and industry-leading capacity (T10000B) tape drive utilizing earlier generation media.
Posted: 24 Oct 2008 | Premiered: 23 Oct 2008
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Tape Efficiencies
sponsored by Sun StorageTek
VIDEOCAST: The Sun StorageTek T10000B tape drive delivers the industry's highest capacity, making it ideal for 24x7 datacenter operations requiring high duty cycle data storage and retrieval.
Posted: 24 Oct 2008 | Premiered: 23 Oct 2008
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1TB Tape Drive
sponsored by Sun StorageTek
VIDEOCAST: In this videocast Thomas Wultich explains how the industry's first 1 TB tape drive can help drive efficiencies, protect your investment, minimize risk, and ensure data protection.
Posted: 24 Oct 2008 | Premiered: 23 Oct 2008
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Storage Optimization for Exchange
sponsored by Azaleos Corporation
WEBCAST: Please join us for a webinar featuring a discussion of how to best architect and implement a long term storage strategy for Exchange Server.
Posted: 09 Oct 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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VMworld 2008 - Managing the Virtualized Data Center
sponsored by Akorri
VIDEO: In the past year, VMware users have changed their approach to virtualization due to increasing scales, more VMs and servers and a growing impact on the SAN. Watch this Q&A session with Akorri CEO Tom Joyce to gain expert insight on these challenges.
Posted: 02 Oct 2008 | Premiered: 01 Oct 2008
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SAN DEFINITION (continued): …  large SAN consisting of islands, the individual islands are interconnected and can share data. Connecting SAN islands together in an efficient manner can present a challenge to a growing organization. There are several ways in which SAN island interconnection can be accomplished. Fibre Channel's fast data transfer makes it a popular technology choice.

Even though a SAN island is physically located at a specific point, it may be used for more than one application, by more than one … 
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