I always thought SAN was essentially cloud storage in that you have an external pool of storage servers connected to your LAN.
By my understanding, the limitation is that traditionally, servers from different vendors in a SAN required their own specific storage because of different environments (Windows vs. Linux for example)
Does cloud storage specifically refer to being able to virtualize the servers such that it is vendor-agnostic?
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traditional SAN still meant you purchased the hardware, connect it, and maintain it. it’s still
a set of physical devices sitting in one of your rooms. you need 1TB of space? you need to buy a device one time that has that much space, PO it, receive it, install it to your network, configure it….
cloud storage is provisioned without the need to figure out about hardware. you need 1TB? enter 1TB into the box and click yes. You’ll get billed for 1TB of usage monthly.
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