Conclusion
The application infrastructure at this firm demonstrates the critical nature of IT at any financial institution. The use of storage networks and SAN extensions to build redundancy and increase availabilityalthough specifically mandated for financial institutions by governing bodiesis widespread in any environment in which competition is rampant and the cost of downtime is immense. Businesses seeking maximum uptime for application infrastructure need to ensure that data is not only mirrored locally with redundant fabrics (as demonstrated in this case study), but also remotely replicated.