Although the university had installed EMC Corp.'s Networker back in 1998, Morton said in recent years storage capacity had doubled.

The university then moved to Networker 7 which featured disk-to-disk backup capabilities.

RMIT also uses multiple EMC disk arrays leveraging both Fibre Channel and ATA disk drives.

In addition to SANs, RMIT uses network-attached storage (NAS) to assist with file serving requirements.

Morton said using ATA disk drives rather than DLT7000 tapes has significantly improved backup and recovery times.