Companies increasingly depend on the use of their key application systems in order to sustain daily business activities. Administrators using IP-based SANs routinely notice how much the SAN has allowed them to reduce the time it takes to perform common storage tasks--from hours or days down to just a few minutes. They also report that they are now able to take advantage of some of the more robust data protection and recovery features found in their iSCSI SAN, such as snapshots, synchronous and asynchronous replication and remote DR functionality. This white paper highlights eight of the most common ways administrators' jobs are made easier by the introduction of an iSCSI SAN.