Storage Network Solution for Ammylife.com

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Storage Network Solution for Ammylife.com
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Summary
The importance of Storage Area Networks (SAN) to businesses requiring varying workloads
and storage needs is noted by industry leader IBM (International Business Machine) and
suggests in favour of incorporating interconnected network architectures like SAN to deal
with these challenges. This report identifies and discusses the network requirements and
justifies them with the help of suggested network architecture diagram. Then the report
touches on scalability and performance, availability, management, connectivity, backup and
recovery and investment where it apart from talking about benefits it is also explained on
how such networks can benefit a business like AmMyLife.com. Thereafter the report ends
with concluding notes.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Solution Requirements...............................................................................................................3
Justification................................................................................................................................5
Scalability and Performance......................................................................................................6
Availability.................................................................................................................................7
Management...............................................................................................................................7
Connectivity...............................................................................................................................7
Backup/Recovery.......................................................................................................................8
Investment..................................................................................................................................8
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................8
References..................................................................................................................................9