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“The company has to have a long-range play,” Swartz maintained. “If I had to move from 2-gig today to 4-gig, I couldn’t afford to make a full swap. Also, I needed to add ports at a granular level instead of eight ports at a time.”

“It has to be a strong company that’s going to be on the market for a long period,” said Sandu, who manages 20 TBytes on an IBM SAN over two sites. “When we first went to a SAN, we were looking to mirror all data across two sites. Cisco was emulating
Fibre over IP, so we went with them.”

— Dave Raffo, Senior Editor, Byte and Switch