SAN, NAS and DAS Heterogeneous Backup

Remember when you bought the SAN? Although the price per terabyte seemed really high, you knew that there were some real opportunities for increasing storage utilization. When the SAN vendor spoke about "islands of data", you knew exactly what he was talking about - and you were tired of storage sitting unused directly attached to your servers. And you liked the idea of simplifying data protection by being able to connect a single tape jukebox directly to the SAN.

What you've learned since then is that while the SAN was a fine investment, things didn't turn out exactly as you thought they would. Pricing for DAS (Direct Attached Storage - the disk that you just put directly into your computer) plummeted to below $100 per terabyte while SAN storage pricing remained high. NAS (Network Attached Storage) feature/functionality increased - even VMware began supporting NAS. Microsoft, Oracle, and others came out recommending against the use of SANs in their e-mail and database products. Your users are stubbornly independent and continued to keep critical data on notebooks, PCs, workstations, and even servers. And you learned that "SAN islands" exist - both in terms of islands of storage and in terms of your SAN vendor trying to lock you into a single vendor solution.

We understand - and we can help. At Unitrends, we’ve built a data protection company around supporting heterogeneous operating systems and storage platforms.

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