IBM DS4700 EXPRESS Overview page 3

Campus area replication
While wide area network (WAN) replication can help provide outstanding protection
against regional disasters, campus area replication can be just as beneficial. When
replicating across the high-speed SAN, data can be mirrored synchronously, so the
remote site has the same data as the local site at all times. The data at the remote site can
then be used for a variety of purposes, such as data restoration, mining, analysis, testing
and backup. Synchronizing and re-synchronizing the local and remote sites can be a
lengthy process that monopolizes a large portion of the SAN's bandwidth. 4 Gb/s Fibre
Channel provides these environments with a high-bandwidth infrastructure well suited for
campus area replication.
4 Gb/s Fibre Channel enables data to be transferred from one system at up to twice the
speed of 2 Gb/s Fibre Channel.
Streaming Video
4 Gb/s Fibre Channel is ideal for world-class broadcasting and rich media storage
networks. Large block, sequential I/O applications that include content creation and
delivery, modeling, rendering, and publishing, may benefit from the additional bandwidth
that 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel provides.
Large Data Analysis
A 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel storage network can help companies accelerate and scale
simulation, visualization, modeling and rendering applications simply and easily to help:
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Tremendously accelerate large dataset I/O rates;
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Share information across the organization for the highest level of collaboration;
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Enable shared file systems, via 3rd parties, to scale to higher levels of
performance ;
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Simplify data management and consolidation to allow managing up to 90
terabytes, behind a single pair of controllers