SAN

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SAN (acronym) or san may refer to:

Contents 1 Technology 2 Biology 3 History 4 Fiction 5 Geography 6 Organizations and groups 7 Transportation 8 Music 9 Publishing/book industry 10 Other languages 11 Other uses 12 See also

[edit] Technology

• A storage area network (SAN) is an architecture to attach remote computer storage devices (such as disk arrays, tape libraries, and optical jukeboxes) to servers in such a way that the devices appear as locally attached to the operating system. Although the cost and complexity of SANs are dropping, they are still uncommon outside larger enterprises.

  Network-attached storage (NAS), in contrast to SAN, uses file-based protocols such as NFS or SMB/CIFS where it is clear that the storage is remote, and computers request a portion of an abstract file rather than a disk block.

[edit] Biology

• Sinoatrial node, pacemaking tissue in the right atrium of the heart
• Stochastic Activity Network, stochastic extension to Petri nets

[edit] History

• The Battle Creek Sanitarium was nicknamed The San by its guests.

[edit] Fiction

• San (comics) is the name of a character of the Marvel Universe.
• Princess Mononoke, San is the original name of Princess Mononoke.

[edit] Geography

• San, Mali, a town
• San River, a river in south-eastern Poland and western Ukraine, the Celt's word (san) means exactly river too.
• Sydney Adventist Hospital, due to the original name being the Sydney Sanitarium, which was shortened to the word "san".

[edit] Organizations and groups

• Bushmen, in Southern Africa, also known as Khwe Khoe, Basarwa, or San
• South African Navy
• SAN Ecuador (Servicio Aéreo Nacional), National Air Service

[edit] Transportation

• San Motors, an Indian automobile manufacturer.
• IATA airport code SAN: San Diego International Airport, California
• Sandersville Railroad

[edit] Music

• San (参) is High and Mighty Color's 3rd album

[edit] Publishing/book industry

• Standard Address Number, a unique seven-digit identifier used to signify a specific address of an organisation in (or served by) the publishing industry

[edit] Other languages

• the Italian and Spanish word for Saint
• San (letter), Greek letter between Pi and Qoppa
• -san, a Japanese title used after a person's name, the equivalent of Mr., Mrs. or Miss. suffix of polite expressions like "Suzuki-san", "Ichirou-san", or "Suzuki Ichirou-san" to name a personal family name or last name, verbally and literally, generally regardless of position, sex, age, and other factors.
• Pronunciation of 3 in Japanese and Mandarin Chinese
• Dream, in some Slavic languages
• Mountain, in Korean and Japanese.

[edit] Other uses

• Senior Advocate of Nigeria
• Styrene-acrylonitrile resin

[edit] See also

• Sans

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