Coppin State University in Baltimore early this year found itself facing a data explosion that had overwhelmed its two Fibre Channel storage arrays. Thus the school's IT operation was forced to find a way to supply users with an easy-to-manage online storage sys- tem that wouldn t break the budget. Once that search began, the IT group saw two possible solutions to fix the problem. One option was to replace its two 3-year-old EMC high-end Symmetrix Fibre Channel storage arrays, which were plagued with problems due to incompatible switches, with new models that support far higher capacity. The second option was to use Internet SCSI technology to add a second storage-area network.
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