The City's existing SAN infrastructure was acquired almost seven years ago and now lacks features and capacity to meet current and future requirements, and must be replaced. With a new IaaS and/or SAN Solution, the City also wants to gain better data protection, replication, and utilization of storage. In addition, the City wants to gain improved disaster recovery capability through the use
of snap-shot capability and replication copies. The City is looking for a long term solution that does not impose limitations on their future operations.