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Storage - An open specification that provides a comprehensive standardized method to monitor and report status information on the condition of disk drives, power supplies, and cooling systems used in high-availability LAN servers and storage subsystems.
Adaptec - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: Archival storage, cache, DASD (Direct-Access Storage Device), device driver, Nearline Storage, single system high availability, SSD (Solid State Disk), Storage Array, Storage Controller, Tiered Storage
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Storage - a centrally managed network that allows any-to-any interconnection of servers and storage systems.
Sysprog.Net - Cite This Source - This Definition - A storage area network (SAN) is a specialized network that provides access to high performance and highly available storage subsystems using block storage protocols. The SAN is made up of specific devices, such as host bus adapters (HBAs) in the host servers, switches that help route storage traffic, and disk storage subsystems. The main characteristic of a SAN is that the storage subsystems are generally available to multiple hosts at the same time, which makes them scalable and flexible. Compare with NAS and DAS.
Microsoft - Cite This Source - This Definition - An acronym for Storage Area Network, a high-speed network that is typically part of an overall network of computing resources for an enterprise, in which the software knows the characteristics of storage devices and the quantity and value of data stored in those devices
HP - Cite This Source - This Definition - Storage-area network. A network dedicated to providing and managing storage and backup for business or carrier networks. Because they're dedicated networks, SANs offer greater capacity and better performance than traditional storage and backup techniques, in which mainframes, servers, or other host computers are attached directly to disk and tape drives and managed via special software. Most SANs today are based on Fibre Channel switches and hubs, configured to occupy the "back end" portion of a network, behind the data center or server farm.
Byte and Switch - Cite This Source - This Definition - A storage architecture that connects servers and storage devices via a network for enhanced reliability, scalability and performance.
Adaptec - Cite This Source - This Definition - "Storage Area Network" is architecture that attaches remotecomputer storage devices such as disk arrays, tape libraries andoptical jukeboxes to servers in such a way that, to the operatingsystem the devices appear as locally attached devices.
Abtech Systems - Cite This Source - This Definition - Storage Area Network. A network that transfers data between computer systems and storage devices via peripheral channels such as SCSI or Fibre Channel.
NetApp - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment), DAS (Direct Attached Storage), Multipathing, Parallel Technology, Point-to-Point, port, SAN, SAS (Serial Attached SCSI), SATA (Serial ATA), Serial Technology, SSA (Serial Storage Architecture), Storage Area Network (SAN), Storage director
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Storage - The next-generation SCSI interface, the serial implementation of the SCSI standard, providing greater flexibility, performance, reliability, and connectivity than the current parallel SCSI mainstream interface. SAS is designed for high-performance enterprise requirements and offers both the benefits of backward compatibility with SCSI and interoperability with Serial ATA, bringing enterprises a flexibility and cost savings not previously possible. SAS-based solutions are ideal for organizations with bandwidth-intensive applications, transaction processing systems, mainline storage requirements, and rich media types such as video.
Adaptec - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment), DAS (Direct Attached Storage), Multipathing, Parallel Technology, Point-to-Point, port, SAN, SATA (Serial ATA), Serial Technology, SSA (Serial Storage Architecture), Storage Area Network (SAN), Storage director
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Storage - The successor to parallel ATA for data storage; a point-to-point connection that delivers full throughput to each storage device by allowing a single controller to manage multiple ports. Serial ATA technology starts at transfer rates of 1.5Gb/s with a roadmap up to 3.0Gb/s and ultimately up to 6.0Gb/s; enables affordable disk-based storage with thinner cabling than Parallel ATA.
Adaptec - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment), DAS (Direct Attached Storage), Multipathing, Parallel Technology, Point-to-Point, port, SAN, SAS (Serial Attached SCSI), Serial Technology, SSA (Serial Storage Architecture), Storage Area Network (SAN), Storage director
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Storage - a VSAM linear data set containing an SMS configuration. See SMS.
Sysprog.Net - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: ACDS (Active Control Data Set), baseline transfer, dump path, Mirror, PAV (Parallel Access Volume), qtree, root volume, volume copy, volume group, VTOC (Volume Table Of Contents), VVDS (VSAM Volume Data Set), WAFL check
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Storage - The full address of a device, consisting of the SCSI adapter number and SCSI ID, for example, 8a.1
NetApp - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: ASPI (Advanced SCSI Programming Interface), ASPI Manager, ASPI Module, Asynchronous Data Transfer, channel, Daisy Chain, DMA (Direct Memory Access), LVD (Low Voltage Differential), Packet Protocol/Packetized SCSI, QAS (Quick Arbitration Select), SCSI Bus, SCSI Device, SCSI ID, SCSI (Small Computer System Interface), Wide SCSI
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Storage - A host adapter and one or more SCSI peripherals connected by cables in a linear chain configuration. The host adapter may exist anywhere on the chain, allowing connection of both internal and external SCSI devices. A system may have more than one SCSI bus by using multiple host adapters.
Adaptec - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: ASPI (Advanced SCSI Programming Interface), ASPI Manager, ASPI Module, Asynchronous Data Transfer, channel, Daisy Chain, DMA (Direct Memory Access), LVD (Low Voltage Differential), Packet Protocol/Packetized SCSI, QAS (Quick Arbitration Select), SCSI address, SCSI Device, SCSI ID, SCSI (Small Computer System Interface), Wide SCSI
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Storage - A device such as a host adapter board, fixed disk drive, or CD-ROM drive that is an initiator or a target or both, and is attached to a SCSI bus cable.
Adaptec - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: ASPI (Advanced SCSI Programming Interface), ASPI Manager, ASPI Module, Asynchronous Data Transfer, channel, Daisy Chain, DMA (Direct Memory Access), LVD (Low Voltage Differential), Packet Protocol/Packetized SCSI, QAS (Quick Arbitration Select), SCSI address, SCSI Bus, SCSI ID, SCSI (Small Computer System Interface), Wide SCSI
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Storage - The number of a device on the SCSI chain.
NetApp - Cite This Source - This Definition - A unique identification number used for each device on the SCSI chain.
Adaptec - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: ASPI (Advanced SCSI Programming Interface), ASPI Manager, ASPI Module, Asynchronous Data Transfer, channel, Daisy Chain, DMA (Direct Memory Access), LVD (Low Voltage Differential), Packet Protocol/Packetized SCSI, QAS (Quick Arbitration Select), SCSI address, SCSI Bus, SCSI Device, SCSI (Small Computer System Interface), Wide SCSI
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Storage - Small Computer System Interface. The hardware interface between the computer and peripheral devices, such as storage systems.
NetApp - Cite This Source - This Definition - a standard, intelligent parallel interface for attaching peripheral devices to computers, based on a device independent protocol. See SSA.
Sysprog.Net - Cite This Source - This Definition - A set of standards allowing computers to communicate with attached devices, such as storage devices (disk drives, tape libraries etc) and printers. SCSI also refers to a parallel interconnect technology which implements the SCSI protocol.
Microsoft - Cite This Source - This Definition - Pronounced "scuzzy," an acronym for Small Computer System Interface, a high performance parallel interface for connecting mass storage devices
HP - Cite This Source - This Definition - Small computer systems interface (pronounced "scuzzy"). A short-range (25 meters or less) protocol designed to link host computers with storage devices such as disk drives. Typically implemented over copper cabling, SCSI is the most widely used and the oldest method of connecting computers to storage devices. Its distance limitations and lack of support for fiber helped launch the migration to SANs.
Byte and Switch - Cite This Source - This Definition - The technology that connects various devices to PCs using a SCSI card that fits inside a computer.
Adaptec - Cite This Source - This Definition - An acronym for "Small Computer System Interface". A set ofstandards for physically connecting and transferring databetween computers and peripheral devices. The SCSI commandarchitecture was originally defined for parallel SCSI buses buthas been carried forward with minimal change for use withiSCSI and serial SCSI. Pronounced "skuzzy".
Abtech Systems - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: ASPI (Advanced SCSI Programming Interface), ASPI Manager, ASPI Module, Asynchronous Data Transfer, channel, Daisy Chain, DMA (Direct Memory Access), LVD (Low Voltage Differential), Packet Protocol/Packetized SCSI, QAS (Quick Arbitration Select), SCSI address, SCSI Bus, SCSI Device, SCSI ID, Wide SCSI
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Storage - Security Descriptor. The NTFS security information associated with a file. The SD contains the owner SID; owning group SID, which is not used; the Discretionary ACL, which is used to control access to files; and the System ACL, which is used to control auditing of file accesses.
NetApp - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: Access Control List (ACL), ACL, ACL (Access Control List), file-level ACL, Group, NTFS permissions, Permissions, privileges, security descriptor (SD), security style, share-level ACL, SmartFilter
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Storage - A security product that enables you to administer a NetApp appliance in a nontrusted environment by creating a secure exchange between a client and the NetApp appliance using SSH and SSL protocols. Developed by Network Appliance.
NetApp - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: Account Migrator Service (AMS), AMS, ApplianceWatch, Data ONTAP, DataFabric, NetCache, NetCache appliance, NetCache Manager, NTAP, NVFAIL, ONTAP, SnapCopy, SnapManager for Exchange, SnapMirror, SnapRestore, WAFL, Write Anywhere File Layout (WAFL)
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Storage - The NTFS security information associated with a file. The SD contains the owner SID; owning group SID, which is not used; the Discretionary ACL, which is used to control access to files; and the System ACL, which is used to control auditing of file accesses.
NetApp - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: Access Control List (ACL), ACL, ACL (Access Control List), file-level ACL, Group, NTFS permissions, Permissions, privileges, SD, security style, share-level ACL, SmartFilter