Business continuity has historically been out of reach for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) because it was too costly and complicated. While large companies could afford expensive fibre channel storage area networks (FC SANs), the highly trained staff to manage them, duplicate data centers, channel extenders, and expensive replication software, SMBs were restricted to making backup tapes and carting them to the storage administrator's basement for safe keeping.

This paper looks at how any company can create an affordable infrastructure that delivers the full spectrum of protection - from simple data protection to disaster recovery to business continuity.