Thinking about building a storage-area network? Decide what you want from a SAN— whether it's consolidated storage, more intelligent storage growth, centralized backup or a high-availability, high-bandwidth platform. Then, design your solution to meet those needs, and budget accordingly. If this is your first SAN, determine which data and how much of it to move off your existing dedicated storage or NAS (network-attached storage) devices and onto the SAN. Also decide how to ensure both the integrity of backups and high availability.
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