Some of the current spend has come from a costly expenditure on legacy SAN storage to analyze and
house order data. This cost has grown by roughly 8% annually, with a new renewal on storage coming in
the next year. Furthermore, IT costs to maintain current equipment in the datacenters have grown.
Along with this, IT has been tasked by XYZ Company board of directors to implement a disaster recovery
strategy to ensure a business operation service-level recovery in 30 seconds or less for local (within the
datacenter) failover time, and 10 minutes or less for the failover time between the geographically
dispersed datacenters during catastrophic disasters. The board has stated that there should be no data
loss during a local failover exercise, while during catastrophic disaster, less than 5 minutes worth of data
loss can be tolerated. This strategy applies to both store services and Web sales.