신 개념 저장장치인 Storage Area Network (SAN)의 활용 및 도입시 고려사항

With the advent of the Internet, data centric computing applications, and e-business applications, virtually all network-stored data has become mission critical in nature. This increasing reliance on the access to enterprise data is challenging the limitations of traditional server-storage solutions. As a result, the ongoing need to add more storage, serve more users and back up more data has given rise to the concept of a SAN(Storage Area Network), “a network whose primary purpose is the transfer of data between computer systems and storage elements and among storage elements.” The purpose of this article is to help the managers and researchers make the understanding of a SAN as the possibility of new data repository in e-business era. This paper provides a thorough literature review on this new concept including its structure, its benefits and disadvantages, and its underlying issues.