Special Topics in Network Administration

You are a respected and tenured IT professor and you also manage the university computer operations that consist of a server farm of 8 servers and an NAS of 100 terabytes. The CIO is excited to announce that the university enrollment is increasing at a steady rate, and as a result, the number of college students enrolling at the university has increased dramatically. This has caused the data requirements to grow 27% in the last 6 months.

Your boss at the university has asked you to provide a 2-year plan to address this unprecedented growth. Create a 3-4 pages proposal for your 2-year plan. Include the following:

• Primary problems that exist in meeting the growth requirement and your proposed solutions
• A list of common problems that you may encounter while adding storage to meet growing data storage requirements
• Your proposed solutions