| SAN (Storage Area Network) is an architecture of | | | | The SRM tools provide two levels of functionality |
| combining computer storage devices to servers | | | | which are day to day maintenance and monitoring |
| which are remotely placed in such a way that they | | | | and the second one is long term maintenance and |
| appear to be locally attached. Therefore optimizing its | | | | planning. So lots of work for a single tool to do and |
| efficiency and the speed with which the disk space is | | | | hence it results into a very complex task due to the |
| utilized is significant, and the same task is well | | | | involvement of different factors. So any of the |
| performed by SRM which stands for Storage | | | | mistakes during development of this tool is quite an |
| Resource Management. | | | | obvious fact and the data stored may be lost and |
| The functions of SRM do not get limited to the | | | | you require another alternative of data recovery. |
| above mentioned but also involve data storage, data | | | | Apart from that this management tool may be |
| recovery, data backup, SAN performance analysis, | | | | discovered as very costly product for few who can |
| forecasting of future needs, user authentication, | | | | not afford this for the small servers and may fall in |
| protection of data from hackers and worms and so | | | | the need of data recovery options as certain of their |
| on. This provides a complete package to the data | | | | most important data may get lost in its absence due |
| stored on SAN and a number of programs have been | | | | to certain mishappening. |
| established to accomplish the task. | | | | |