Deploying new storage capacity can be a time-consuming process. The Microsoft Information Technology Group (MSIT) was experiencing a rapid increase in the time and cost required to maintain its data centers. Before MSIT can buy technology to add to its storage infrastructure, order documentation has to be filled out and purchase orders have to be drafted. The hardware shipping process alone can take several days. Before the storage service was available, it took an average of 12 days to procure storage technology.

Because of the efficiency of reallocating storage using SAN technology and the storage usage tracking capabilities of Microsoft Cluster Server and SQL Server 2005, it now takes only one day to fulfill storage orders of up to 3 terabytes. Read this white paper to find out how your company can increase data availability to 99.999% and reduce the time needed to grant storage space.