Storage solutions for Oracle: Should you choose SANs, NAS or both?

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FEATURED STORY January 5, 2009 Storage Solutions for Oracle: Should You Choose SANs, NAS or Both? The emerging storage demand of Grid Computing makes Network Attached Storage (NAS) essential. The fruition of Grid Computing will result in connectivity needs for clusters of servers numbering in hundreds of nodes. Building such a large cluster with a Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN) would be a difficult task. Without a doubt, the majority of Oracle databases deployed on NAS are in the same data centers with formidable SAN configurations, but supporting two different storage architectures can be a cumbersome task for IT shops. Ultimately, choosing SAN, NAS, or both is generally heavily weighted on performance. READ MORE >>

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