SAN Recovery - Universal Virtual Computer
A Universal Virtual Computer (UVC) is similar to a virtual machine in that it creates a layer between the computer platform and the software and offers portability between different platforms. However, unlike the normal virtual machines, UVC is designed to be universal; it offers a platform independent layer. Thus the [...]
SAN Recovery - Digital Obsolescence
Digital obsolescence refers to a situation when the digital data stored in a digital media is no longer accessible. This situation occurs because either the hardware such as the storage media or the driver, or the software that runs on it is no longer available.
The primary reason for digital obsolescence is [...]
SAN Recovery - Digital Dark Age
Digital Dark Age refers to a possible situation in future when it will be difficult to access old documents stored in electronic media because either the hardware or the software used to access these documents becomes obsolete by then. The problem affects not only text documents but also other digital [...]
SAN Recovery - Enterprise Content Management
Enterprise content management (ECM), according to Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) International, is the “strategies, methods and tools used to capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver content and documents related to organizational processes.”
ECM encompasses the legacy problem domains that have been addressed by records management and document management. [...]
SAN Recovery - Disk Arrays and Disk Array Controllers
Disk Array
A disk array refers to a disk storage system with multiple disk drives. The components of disk array include disk array controllers, cache memories, disk enclosures and power supplies. It also offers advanced storage functionalities such as RAID and virtualization.
Disk arrays are categorized in to five: [...]
SAN Recovery - Storage Management Initiative - Specification
Storage Management Initiative – Specification (SMI-S) is a storage standard developed by Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) to “develop and foster the adoption of a highly-functional open interface for the management of storage networks.” SMI-S enables interoperability among heterogeneous storage vendor systems.
SMI-S defines Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) [...]
SAN Recovery - File Area Network
File area network (FAN) refers to a systematic approach to organizing various file-sharing technologies over a network of storage devices connected to a file server or network attached storage (NAS). FAN provides organizations with a scalable and flexible approach to file management.
FAN is a combination of Storage Admission Tier (SAT), [...]
SAN Recovery - Disaster recovery
Disaster recovery involves a series of policies and procedures intended to help the recovery or continuation of a technological process after it had been affected by a natural or man-made disaster. IT disaster recovery is all about planning for resumption of applications, data, hardware, communications and related infrastructure.
Typically, large organizations spend [...]
SAN Recovery - Storage Virtualization
Storage virtualization is the process of abstracting logical storage from physical storage. There are three main types of implementation approaches: host-based virtualization, storage device-based virtualization and network-based virtualization.
Host-Based Virtualization
In host-based virtualization, physical disks presented to the host system are handled by a traditional physical device driver. There is a software [...]
SAN Recovery - MetaSAN
MetaSAN is type of storage area network (SAN) management software for OS X, Linux and Windows. It is developed by Tiger Technology.
MetaSAN enables multiple users to share one or more high-speed RAID devices with multiple computers using various interconnect technologies such as iSCSi, Ethernet or Fibre Channel. Each computer in the network [...]
