Fibre Channel Primer

8 Fibre Channel: Connection to the Future
ENTERPRISE DECISION MAKING
Information-savvy organizations make data sharing and distribution
a key part of their corporate structure. Unless accurate and timely
data, the lifeblood of any organization, is kept flowing, decision
making suffers. IT managers who use Fibre Channel-based strategies
to support enterprise decision making have these advantages:
l Scalable, gigabit storage and server networking on one seamless
interconnect
l Data warehouses optimized for queries
l Data marts optimized for decision analysis
l Continually expanding databases
l Expedient, low-latency access and delivery of data
The results are the ability to give decision makers high-speed access
to data at any time, supporting critical business goals and objectives.
Enterprise-wide quick access and retrieval from large databases
and data warehouses provide the means to solve critical business
issues. When organizations gain insight to the value of Fibre Channel-
enabled data access, they will be able to capture the business value
inherent in expedient access to data.
Knowledge for decision making can be derived from the vast
amounts of data available to businesses. Fibre Channel is here today
and available to assist organizations in extracting knowledge.
Desktop
Network
Gigabit
Fibre
Channel
Enterprise Data
Storage
Enterprise
Servers
Users
Figure 2.2 Fibre Channel solutions offer the means to reap full benefit from data