I always feel like I'm looking for information. It's such a big puzzle ... [but] I don't need those high-end capabilities. I think that Microsoft has been focusing on great things [over] the last few years?from my perspective ... security and storage. It's having the [storage] pieces within the [operating system] that's very critical, and it drives prices down.

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Certainly the snapshots are going to give us easier access to files we need to get back, and the replication will help us with our disaster recovery plans.

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We needed to control costs from a labor perspective. We would rather spend the money on equipment than on having people delete files to help us deal with performance issues.

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I still believe direct-attached storage is the most reliable technology, but it's not realistic given the size of our data storage, ... ISCSI should enable us to give our remote locations growth capacity we couldn't provide before, at a reasonable price.

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But everything Cisco sent me (turned out to be) 10/100 switches for about the same price as the gigabit switches.

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