Mirage Resorts
Places A Bet On A SAN
Here's why the Mirage Resorts Inc. in Las Vegas needs a storage
area network: The busiest time of the day for the $1.5 billion company is
between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m., which means the staff has four hours to back up more
than 570 GB of data to tape before the day's first shift starts at 6 a.m.
Showtime Builds Videos In Record Time Storage area networks are helping to raise the curtain
at Showtime Networks. The cable TV network uses a SAN to help assemble
station-break videos, known as "interstitial material," on its eight channels of
programming.
SAN Backs Up
Financial Assets
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Trust has automated paper-mail routing
and audiotape retrievals using a sophisticated storage area network.