DATA MANAGEMENT AND STORAGE PLATFORMS
There are few choices for Enterprise Database Management Software.
• The leading Database Software provider are IBM (DB2), Oracle, Microsoft (SQL Server) and Sysbase. - Also MySQL ( A Linux Open-source Relational Database product ) is a new entrant, is available free on the Internet and increasingly supported by HP and others. In additional to the traditional Disk Array technologies, large firms are turning to Network-based Storage technologies called Storage Area Networks (SANs).
• Storage Area Networks connect multiple storage devices on a separate high-speed Network dedicated to storage. The SAN creates a large central pool of storage that can be rapidly accessed and shared by multiple Servers.