Today's midsize enterprises face the daunting challenge of managing growing volumes of data - and struggle to find ways to do this effectively with constrained budgets and limited staffing resources. But recent advances in IP-based storage technology have made it possible for businesses of all sizes to leverage existing technology and staffing resources to easily and cost-effectively build and maintain sophisticated storage networks.

This white paper outlines the many data storage challenges facing the IT staff at today's midsize enterprises and discusses how IP-based networked storage can help them overcome these challenges, providing many benefits, including:

• Increased utilization rates
• Decreased management costs
• Increased reliability
• Simplified backup and recovery