Enterprise Storage
Enterprise storage is at the heart of an Enterprise Storage Network. In order to meet the demands placed upon an information infrastructure by an organization where information is a critical part of its success, the enterprise storage system must provide certain functions. These are:
* Heterogeneous connectivity. The application and computing environment of an organization must be allowed to be flexible in order to meet the broad and evolving needs of that organization. In order to permit this flexibility, the information infrastructure must be able to support any of the potential computing environments the organization needs both today and in the future whether they be any of the Unix, NT, midrange, Linux, or mainframe operating systems and associated hardware platforms.