Is the Carlson San Approach Ideal?
A Look at the Carlson SAN Approach Case-study Carlson Companies is one of the best known companies in the world. The company is known for its work in the field of leisure, for example, hotels, traveling agencies, and restaurants. The most famous examples of these categories are Radisson Hotels & Resorts, Seven Seas Cruises, T.G.I. Friday's, and Wagonlit Travel. The company has a human capital of almost 200,000 strong. With all these employees & expertise the company has made its net worth $6.8 billion. The companies crowning achievement in the IT world, is the blending of the IP SAN and Fibre Channel. Their goal was to produce a shared storage environment with the ability to grow with the company.
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Carlson had problem with it servers having to have separate disks for each server. SAN solves this problem by dividing the central storage more evenly. In contrast, with dispersed data storage, which will be referred to by its initials hereafter, requires that more disks and servers be bought to make more space for information. SAN can recover after a disaster and recover all servers, unlike the D.D.S., which would not cover several servers for Carlson. SAN also solves Carlson’s back up problems as well by quickly making duplicates. However, in some aspects SAN does not compare to D.D.S. at all or till much later. Take for an example a business that is growing but not at a rate that they will not run out of space anytime soon. Without the large load, most of the positives of the SAN are useless till the company expands, costing more than it is returning till the company makes the necessary growth. Another disadvantage of SAN is that it is expensive. Steve Brown, CIO of Carlson, had this to say about the expenses of the upgrade: “The hardware wasn't cheap. Carlson CIO Steve Brown said the 12 IP switches, two routers and 10TB array cost a total of about $2 million. The company paid $40,000 each for Nishan's switches, $80,000 apiece for the Cisco routers and $1.2 million for the XP512” (Looking at… n.d.; Mearian,2002; Stallings, 2009, p. 314). With the SAN having to run through multiple …show more content…
These goals are as follows: implement an enterprise data warehouse, build a global network, move to enterprise-wide architecture, established six-sigma quality for Carlson clients, facilitate outsourcing and exchange, and leverage existing technology and resource (pg. 314). The main point of these goal were to a) expand data storage, backup, and recovery, as quoted by Mark Price, who is the IT director for the company, “One of the biggest issues we wanted to address from a corporate point of view was to provide storage services to our remote offices," says Price, "and one of their biggest problems was backup and recovery. We wanted to expand outside our data center, globally, for all our remote offices and data centers” (Simpson, 2002 para. 5). Before the switch, the storage was initially handled by combining of the separate disc storage for the servers and mainframe, which limited the scalability of its existing program. The company eventual chose SAN because it could utilize some of the equipment already acquired by the company. When making this new system, Carlson had to combine many elements as stated by Lucas Mearian (2002) in his article on
A Look at the Carlson SAN Approach Case-study Carlson Companies is one of the best known companies in the world. The company is known for its work in the field of leisure, for example, hotels, traveling agencies, and restaurants. The most famous examples of these categories are Radisson Hotels & Resorts, Seven Seas Cruises, T.G.I. Friday's, and Wagonlit Travel. The company has a human capital of almost 200,000 strong. With all these employees & expertise the company has made its net worth $6.8 billion. The companies crowning achievement in the IT world, is the blending of the IP SAN and Fibre Channel. Their goal was to produce a shared storage environment with the ability to grow with the company.
What …show more content…
Carlson had problem with it servers having to have separate disks for each server. SAN solves this problem by dividing the central storage more evenly. In contrast, with dispersed data storage, which will be referred to by its initials hereafter, requires that more disks and servers be bought to make more space for information. SAN can recover after a disaster and recover all servers, unlike the D.D.S., which would not cover several servers for Carlson. SAN also solves Carlson’s back up problems as well by quickly making duplicates. However, in some aspects SAN does not compare to D.D.S. at all or till much later. Take for an example a business that is growing but not at a rate that they will not run out of space anytime soon. Without the large load, most of the positives of the SAN are useless till the company expands, costing more than it is returning till the company makes the necessary growth. Another disadvantage of SAN is that it is expensive. Steve Brown, CIO of Carlson, had this to say about the expenses of the upgrade: “The hardware wasn't cheap. Carlson CIO Steve Brown said the 12 IP switches, two routers and 10TB array cost a total of about $2 million. The company paid $40,000 each for Nishan's switches, $80,000 apiece for the Cisco routers and $1.2 million for the XP512” (Looking at… n.d.; Mearian,2002; Stallings, 2009, p. 314). With the SAN having to run through multiple …show more content…
These goals are as follows: implement an enterprise data warehouse, build a global network, move to enterprise-wide architecture, established six-sigma quality for Carlson clients, facilitate outsourcing and exchange, and leverage existing technology and resource (pg. 314). The main point of these goal were to a) expand data storage, backup, and recovery, as quoted by Mark Price, who is the IT director for the company, “One of the biggest issues we wanted to address from a corporate point of view was to provide storage services to our remote offices," says Price, "and one of their biggest problems was backup and recovery. We wanted to expand outside our data center, globally, for all our remote offices and data centers” (Simpson, 2002 para. 5). Before the switch, the storage was initially handled by combining of the separate disc storage for the servers and mainframe, which limited the scalability of its existing program. The company eventual chose SAN because it could utilize some of the equipment already acquired by the company. When making this new system, Carlson had to combine many elements as stated by Lucas Mearian (2002) in his article on