Symantec 5.1 manual What you can do with CommandCentral Storage, Storage network technologies

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About Veritas CommandCentral Storage

For more information about the hotfix deployment mechanism, see the

CommandCentral Administrator’s Guide.

What you can do with CommandCentral Storage

Symantec strives to help you manage the integrity of your information by enabling you to maintain the right balance of information security and availability. Symantec delivers market-leading technology, insight, and expertise in the areas of information security, data management, systems management, storage management, and application performance management.

With Symantec’s unmatched breadth and depth, your IT organization can better align with business objectives and address the issues of cost, complexity and compliance. Symantec is uniquely positioned to help keep your business up, running, and growing, no matter what happens.

CommandCentral Storage provides a single, centralized, consistent storage management console to simplify the complex tasks involved in deploying, provisioning, managing, and growing a multi-vendor networked storage environment.

Managing the storage network: introduction

Many organizations—as they adopt e-commerce, supply chain management, compliance, and other data-intensive applications—find that their data is exploding. More and more storage is needed to digitize manuals, corporate records, and other paper-based information, and to hold ever-increasing multimedia content.

If all that volume and complexity weren’t enough of a management challenge, today’s business environments demand that data be available immediately, continuously, and from anywhere—to multiple applications and to hundreds, thousands, or even millions of customers, business partners, and employees.

Storage network technologies

Historically, enterprises have relied heavily on parallel SCSI technology to provide the performance required for their enterprise data storage needs. More recently, however, some enterprises are finding that the restrictions imposed by SCSI architecture are too costly for SCSI to continue as a viable solution.

To overcome these restrictions, many enterprises have turned to a network-attached storage (NAS) model that enables storage arrays to reside directly on the main user network, where disk accesses may be made directly rather than through the server’s network connection. However, this model can add a significant load to the network, which frequently is already starved for bandwidth.