Fo the storage growth rates driven by the new business climate, a specific SAN environment may easily grow

two orders of magnitude in storage capacity during its lifetime. As the point of central intelligence in the SAN, a storage domain manager must be able to accommodate a significant amount of growth without load-related performance degradation. Intelligence should be added as configurations grow to ensure smooth, cost effective scalability over a wide performance range. An ability to cache significant amounts of data in the intelligent platform itself is crucial in optimizing the SAN configuration to achieve performance improvements in application-specific environments. For example, if "hot spots" such as fil

This mission. An EMC information infrastructure unifies networked storage technologies,stor

age platforms, software, and services to help organization s better and morecosteffectively manage, protect, and

share information .EMC's VisionEMC's vision is to create the ultimate information lifecycle management companyand

help customers in getting the maximum value from their information at thelowest total cost, at every point in the information

lifecycle. With 2005 revenues of $9.6 6 billion, and approximately 26,500 employees worldwide, EMC is the worldleader

in products, services, and solutions for information storage andmanagement. EMC Software Group (ESG) is among the

10 largest softwarecompani es in the world.EMC2. Where information lives For example, computer RAM is an example of a

primary storage device. However, secondarystoragei s a storage medium that holds information until it is deleted or overwritten. For example,a floppy

disk drive or a hard disk drive is an example of a secondary storage device.Storage is one of the most important characteristics of

the computer technology. Differentstorage devices are used to retain the computer data for particular duration of time. There areseveral storage

devices that have been used by computer users for the storage of data. Thesestorage devices are used with the computers.A

storage device is an equipment that is used to record data or information in it. A storagedevice may be of two types- recording storage device

and data storage devices. A recordingstorage device is that device which holds the data in it whereas data storage devices are usedto

process the information. However, data storage device may have a removable or permanentcompo nent for recording as well.USB drive

is the first storage device we are going to talk about. It is a small storage device thatis directly connected to the USB of the system through integrated

connectors and cables. Theystore the data files over flash memory. USB storage devices are made in a number of designs,colors and capacities.

Some of the features of USB storage drive areyou will instantly knowabout its proper working as when you connect it to the computer, light starts blinking

on thedevice, you can protect your files from being erased by storing it in USB storage device.

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