Storage Area Network (SAN)

Database Storage with High Performance & Availability

Storage area networks capitalize on the best of the storage and network technologies to provide a low latency, high bandwidth interconnect which can span large distances, provide high connectivity and good management infrastructure from the start.

SAN - Database Storage with High Performance and Capacity

A Storage Area Network (SAN), is the natural choice for database storage. Its fully-redundant architecture makes it a Highly Available, reliable solution—a must-have for any mission critical database. Additionally, its high storage capacity makes SAN an extremely scalable solution, offering the ability to grow with your changing storage needs.

Rackspace offers you two fully-managed EMC® SAN choices—shared SAN and dedicated SAN—for diverse database storage needs. Choose from Fiber Channel (FC) or SATA SAN, depending on your performance and capacity needs, as well as a choice of RAID configurations for optimal protection and performance.

When you supplement the technology and choices with our expert SAN Engineers and second-to-second support, you have a serious, reliable storage solution—without the complexities and costs that come with building, maintaining and running SAN.

Shared Storage Area Network (Shared SAN)

Shared SAN is a fast, highly scalable, secure storage for block-level storage:

• Pay-as-you-grow—start with and pay for the resources required for today and add more capacity if and when you need it
• No need to worry about over-purchasing or overgrowing your storage environment in a few months or years

Dedicated Storage Area Network (dSAN)

Dedicated SAN (dSAN) is a fast, scalable, highly secure storage for Enterprise block-level needs.

• Ideal Enterprise-class solution for customers with high-performance and highly secure storage needs
• Scaled storage capacity—no need to worry about over-purchasing or quickly outgrowing your storage environment
• Snapshots and Clones enable easy data backup and local replication
• dSAN to dSAN replication between Rackspace Data Centers is available to address regional disasters and outages or other business-impacting events

Learn about our other file storage service:
Direct Attached Storage (DAS)