• Grow the infrastructure according to needs and budget: – Add redundancy and multipathing – Migrate tape devices onto the SAN
– Add NAS or iSCSI devices for workgroups and remote offices
• Implement SRM tools—while the SAN is still small
Other examples of phased implementations are: LAN-free backup implementation leading to serverless backup solution Virtualization appliance implementation leading to data sharing solution
SAN management software implementation leading to integrated enterprise management solution