ABC.com is a company that currently employs ad hoc backup techniques. Each group within IT
manages its own servers, including backup and recovery. Servers (which are a mix of Sun and
Windows machines) are directly attached to their own backup devices and managed by different
backup applications. ABC.com’s storage needs is expected to quadruple over the next five years.
Databases have to be shut down to be backed up. ABC.com wants to make management easier
and maintain application availability. Which solution meets with these requirements?

A.
Deploy a centralized backup infrastructure, database backup agents, and a SAN attached tape
library

B.
Deploy a centralized backup infrastructure and custom scripts to back up the databases

C.
Deploy a centralized backup server, with the tape drives attached to the application servers

D.
Use the current backup infrastructure and build custom scripts to back up the databases