MMThe growing demand for information access coupled with the recognition that information is a primary asset for most businesses is driving the development of new methods for accessing, managing, and delivering information. Businesses today are looking to leverage their existing infrastructures while increasing their return on investment by utilizing technology that is best suited to the applications, network architectures, and server systems deployed.

MMSANCOME provides the answer to today's storage requirements. Storage networking technology addresses the growth in data and information providing an architectural framework around which companies can deploy storage in the manner best suited to their needs. Both Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Storage Area Network (SAN) technologies enable companies to realize the benefits of networked access to storage. The convergence of NAS and SAN will enable customers to deploy best of breed network storage solutions optimized to meet their unique challenges. IT professionals may have at one time viewed SAN and NAS as competing technologies, however today they are looking to integrate their SAN and NAS converged solutions, as well as data backup and recovery.