The Shifting Storage Landscape: What's New & Noteworthy in SAN-Optimized Storage

Leveraging Innovation and Accelerated Architectures

It’s long been understood that data center modernization begins and ends with data
management. Every advancement in IT technology, including the latest in AI and predictive analytics, starts with data. This core focus on data storage and protection is well placed. Continuous data availability is an undeniable mandate, and many organizations struggle to find the top performance they need while balancing the budget.

This can be seen in Storage Area Networks (SAN), which are an important part of
modernization efforts, as they bring together the high-performance networking, servers and storage that organizations need to manage growing data volume. SANs are known for improving application availability and data accessibility because they provide centralized storage that is accessible to many servers. But the storage engine behind these networks is crucial to keeping pace.

In particular, enterprise operations typically have both SAN-based workloads (ERP, databases, VDI) and unstructured data NAS workloads in one environment. Some organizations separate these workloads based on internal policies that require dedicated storage to isolate some or all of the SAN workloads. Those SAN workloads need high performance, continuous availability and operational efficiency while maintaining contrained budgets, in short an intelligent data infrastructure is needed.