What does SAN stand for?

PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED PROGRAMMING ON TOP OF VIA, Yibing Wang, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35205 Virtual Interface Architecture (VIA) was proposed as a broad band networking solution for system area networks (SANs).

a provider of VI-based data center networks, has announced that Microsoft has selected Giganet's high-performance Virtual Interface (VI) Networking products as the system area network for the new Microsoft Technology Center (MTC), opening on October 12, 2000 in Austin, Texas.

Morgan Keegan, a leading investment firm and trend watcher, published a research report dated March 8, 2000 that came to the following conclusion: "With support for concurrent operation of VI and SCSI, we believe Fibre Channel can emerge an a high speed System Area Network solution that drives the convergence of NAS, SAN and cluster networking in the data center.

A system area network is a specialized network used in clusters for node-to-node communications that delivers both high bandwidth and low latency.

We looked at it but we concluded that, for the type of traffic, the overhead of utilizing IP far outweighed the benefits," he said, "There's no benefit to carrying native IP data structures inside a system area network.

The powerful storage processors and four 10Gb InfiniBand communication connectivity makes the VS7000i storage system the ideal storage platform to realize the vision of the converged High Performance Computing Cluster by combining communications, clustering and storage on a common System Area Network.

The change, says the South Plainfield, New Jersey-based company, has been made to emphasize the company's increasing focus on storage software - particularly network-attached storage, system area networks and OEM sales to open systems and embedded storage vendors.

7) RBC Capital Markets 2004 System Area Networks Conference --(BUSINESS WIRE) CEO to Describe Benefits of Industry's First Enterprise-Class Network Storage Controller Who: Candera, Inc.