Jakob Parker
IT/240
6/10/2013
John Helt
123 Textiles Corporation has been a respected company around the neighborhood for years, and through all the earthquakes that have happened they always stood around. I have been asked to devise a plan to help this corporation out, not only is the natural disaster level high, but it is in a high crime area and the server was taken right out of one of the windows. While this is a huge concern as far as the hardware is concern, one of the bigger concerns is the information that was stored. The company in turn has had to shut down until the problem is solved. So, starting fresh may be a great opportunity to get the job done correctly. So in this paper I will be devising a plan to help the neighborhood hero’s secure their company files, and hardware. We will talk about new ways to back-up files, and new ways to access them. We will go over the RAID system, and how I believe it can help the company, especially from a Server stand point. A lot of new ideas come up every year about the best possible program, and hardware for business’s, and their safety. The first item on the list to review would be the back-up data, and how to provide, and store it. Providing back up for the data that has been stored for the company is one of the most important parts to recovering after a loss of important information. Vast amounts of information that has to be kept for years on end must be able to be pulled up, and uploaded to the new disks. I have found that the LTO-4 may be sufficient of a choice to fulfill the needs of the corporation. It allows 800gb of uncompressed information, 1600gb uncompressed per cartridge("Network Storage Arrays", 2013). Storage Array Networks (SAN), would only need a network connection to be able to put a snapshot of the backup in the Network. A snapshot is just a quick view of the information that is being detained in the system. However, depending on the