Carlson Companies
Junaid Khan
Strayer University
Dr. Gideon U. Nwatu
May 20, 2014
Carlson Companies
Table of Contents
Abstract ........................................................................................................................................... 3
Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 4
Carlson SAN approach in todays environment ............................................................................. 4
Comparison between consolidating data and dispersed arrange SAN data .................................... 5
Issues raised from the Carlson SAN mixing equipment ................................................................. 6
Cloud computing used by Carlson instead of a SAN ..................................................................... 6
Reference ........................................................................................................................................ 8
Carlson Companies
Abstract
In this case study Carson Company discuss its business strategies and also discuss about
the Information technology Division. The central computing environment of Carson Company IT
consists of IBM mainframe and over 50 networked Hewlett-Packard and sun servers. The
mainframe supports a wide range of applications; include Oracle financial database, email,
Microsoft Exchange, web, PeopleSoft, and a data warehouse application.
The IT division established six goals for assuring that IT services continued to meet the
needs of a growing company with heavy reliance on data and applications. These goals are
implemented for a storage area network (SAN).
Carlson Companies
Introduction
Carlson companies is one of the largest privately held companies in the United States,
with more than 180,000 employees in more than 140 countries, Carlson enterprises include a
presence in marketing business and leisure travel, and hospitality industries.
Its information Technology (IT) division, Carlson shared services, acts as a service
provider to its internal clients and consequently must support a spectrum of user applications and
services. The mainframe included an efficient disaster recovery plan to preserve data in the event
of major system crashes or other incidents and to get data back online with little or no disruption
to the user.
The core of the Carlson SAN is an IP-based scheme in which Gigabit Ethernet switched
carry IP traffic among servers and between serves and the central storage. Carlsons IP SAN
helps reduce the ongoing administration and management of storage networking by taking
advantage of well-established and well-understood IP networking technologies. Carlson
Companies is one of the largest privately held ... (n.d.).
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time, also cost avoidance. Enterprise data warehouse is the important part of the business
because data warehouse help to maintain the data in a proper way and easy to access.
For promoting the business Carlson Company started its global networking that help to
spread the business among different parts of the countries. They also made SNIA shared storage
model that have the great advantage of the storage networking industry. Carlson's data center
relies on IP SAN. (n.d.).
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Figure 1:- Carlson companies IP SAN Carlson's data center relies on IP SAN. (n.d.).
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