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What is a storage area network and how is it different from regular storage?
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What is a storage area network and how is it different from regular storage?

A storage area network, or SAN, is a dedicated high-speed network that connects servers to a centralized pool of block-level storage, separate from your general-purpose LAN. The key distinction from network-attached storage is that a SAN presents storage to servers as if it were locally attached, which matters for performance-sensitive workloads like databases, virtualization, and transactional systems. For most enterprise IT teams, a SAN is the right answer when you need predictable low-latency I/O at scale.

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