SAN Maps for Simplified Data Security.

Enterprise Systems Journal,  November, 1999  by Smith, Kevin

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Shared access to data can cut costs and increase productivity, however,, it is important that not all employees have access to all information. This article focuses on the SAN and mapping table techniques that are used for data security.

Shared access to a consolidated pool of storage promises to dramatically reduce total cost of ownership by decreasing the storage resources that need to be purchased and lowering the cost to manage the data stored on those resources. But shared access to disks is not without risks. A security barrier is generally required for sensitive data, such as the ...

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