olemus
kiire spetsialiseeritud (alam)võrk andmete talletuseks, põhineb mitmesugustel ühissalvestitel, võrgu poole pöördutakse serverite kaudu, andmed talletatakse plokkidena

ISO/IEC 27040:
võrk, mille esmane otstarve on andmete turvaline ja stabiilne edastus arvutisüsteemide ja salvestite vahel ning salvestite vahel;
ta komponendid on füüsilisi ühendusi tagav sidetaristu, ühendusi korraldav halduskiht, salvestid ja arvutisüsteemid
= network whose primary purpose is the transfer of data between computer systems and storage devices and among storage devices
Note. A SAN consists of a communication infrastructure, which provides physical connections, and a management layer, which organizes the connections, storage devices, and computer systems so that data transfer is secure and robust

ülevaateid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_area_network

http://bio.gsi.de/DOCS/www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg245470.pdf

https://bmsit.ac.in/public/assets/pdf/cse/studymaterial/SAN%20-%20Ananda%20R.pdf

turvalisus
https://www.techopedia.com/definition/30210/storage-area-network-security-san-security

https://www.snia.org/sites/default/files/SNIAsecbookletfinal.pdf

https://www.irjet.net/archives/V8/i9/IRJET-V8I9174.pdf

vt ka
- salvestusvõrgu kommutaator
- virtuaalne salvestusvõrk