Is "Swarm Entry Level" a new contest or something? Lately there are many contests... I wouldn't be surprised if this was one of them?

Hmmm... Guess I'm wrong. Apparently it's a "new product" or something. Sigh. Pity.

Could someone kindly explain to me what is this so-called new product about?

My head hurts...

Ah well. According to the website, it is an "Affordable, easy to manage Encrypted IP SAN Storage". But seriously, this description is like NO DESCRIPTION at all, to me at least.

I mean, I somewhat "know" what LAN and WAN is, but exactly what is S... A... N?

Yes, yes. I'm such a noob. Pardon me, but IT has many fields and I'm not an IT student in the first place. Try not to patronize me. There are certain limitations to my technological knowledge you know...

15 minutes later...
An hour later...
A day later...
A week later...
A month later...

Geez! You people are so "unkind". FINE! I'll read up myself!

Argh... SAN... Here we go...

In short, SAN stands for Storage Area Network.

Apparently, a Storage Area Network (SAN) is a high-speed subnetwork of shared storage devices. A storage device is a machine that contains nothing but a disk or disks for storing data.

A SAN's architecture works in a way that makes all storage devices available to all servers on a LAN or WAN. As more storage devices are added to a SAN, they too will be accessible from any server in the larger network. In this case, the server merely acts as a pathway between the end user and the stored data.

Because stored data does not reside directly on any of a network's servers, server power is utilized for business applications, and network capacity is released to the end user.

*Phew*

Amazingly, I actually understand what all these means!

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