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  • SAN, S. A. N., stands for Storage Area Network, which by its very name implies a dedicated

  • network specifically for data storage.

  • Let's say you have a very popular photography studio for... say... dogs; and as you take

  • more photos you save them across many hard drives, but your server is quickly running

  • out of physical space for additional hard drives.

  • The question is, where do you centralize and store all of those dogs? That's where a storage

  • area network comes in.

  • With a SAN you can collect all of your pictures together and place them in a centralized pool

  • of redundant storage nodes, which is physically separate from your server.

  • As the popularity of your "photography studio for dogs" grows, a web server can fill-up

  • with photos fast. With a SAN scaling up the amount of available storage is easy and immediate!

  • Centralized Storage Easy Scalability

  • Much Doge... er... dogs.

  • For more information visit our SAN page at liquidweb.com/san. My name is J., thanks for

  • watching, and that's SAN in 60 seconds.

SAN, S. A. N., stands for Storage Area Network, which by its very name implies a dedicated

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