Impact Of The SAN Approach On Carlson Companies

The SAN approach on Carlson Companies can be assessed by gauging its impact on the various businesses that Carlson Companies is involved in. With the firm involved in potentially high growth sectors, the Storage Area Network (SAN) needed to be able to adequately cater to the expected growth. This means the SAN had to incorporate scalability in its design and ensure it was reliable. This way, it would be expected to always perform and also adapt accordingly as the business expanded. With the adoption of the SAN approach, Carlson Companies fiber channel switches with Ethernet switches. The Ethernet switches apart from being low-cost in the acquisition were also low-cost maintenance-wise. With need for extra space always looming, more servers could be supported by increasing the number of IP storage switches. The management load of the SAN is also lowered by applying robust IP networking technologies. Data storage done over IP brings with it increased capabilities for integration efforts within the Carlson enterprise network. With the ever rising need for cost-effectiveness within organizations today, more requires to be done with the lowest possible cost involved and done within the desired parameters of effectiveness. The Carlson approached led to a system of high level data storage, processing and distribution ensured that it

Since the mission-critical applications needed to be online at all times, conducting an offline migration would jeopardize business operations. HP had to be brought to provide data migration solutions. To reduce its impact on operations, the process was then conducted outside business to prevent any potential downtime from affecting operations. To adequately deal with this problem, Carlson must ensure it has staff that are competent in the various systems it has chosen to deploy. This pool of talent should be sufficient to handle any hurdles that may be