We've always tried to take a look around the corner. If we are going to spend this money, is there any possibility to do something different or to better improve the infrastructure tomorrow, even if we can't leverage it today?
We were running out of ports at the core and completely out of ports at the edge, we had tape storage hanging off directors and no way to scale, it wasn't a true core/edge philosophy.
We were able to make this transition with virtually zero downtime. No one at Kindred would have been aware of the change if they hadn't been told. We designed our new SANs to be extremely stable and reliable.
