Keep tabs on the vast array of storage network technologies, including SAN, NAS, Fibre Channel, file systems, virtualization, database storage, and snapshots. Plus, discover emerging technology standards such as iSCSI, InfiniBand, and storage provisioning. A profoundly useful resource for troubleshooting and coping with legacy issues such as interoperability and storage resource management.
Praise for the first edition of Building Storage Networks: "This book is the Bible of storage networking" --Dave Hill, Senior Storage Analyst, the Aberdeen Group Now more than ever, especially in the age of e-commerce, data must be ...
This book is intended for people who are not very familiar with IT, or who are just starting out in the IT world.
That extra speed, low latencies, and new protocols and tiering all profoundly affect the way apps should be written to get best advantage from the new storage world. Examples abound. Larry Ellison at Oracle was (rightly) proud enough to ...
Optical networks provide the core for building storage and data networks on a local and wide area basis. For metropolitan and wide area applications, TDM, CWDM, WDM, and DWDM can be used with lambda services and where dedicated dark ...
Having been a technical reviewer for Marc Farley's “Building Storage Networks” and Tom Clark's “Designing Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks”, as well as making my own small contribution (“Storage Area Network Essentials,” coauthored ...
"Storage Networks Explained has much to recommend it.... a rarity in the literature of digital data storage – a complete exposition of both the base subject matter and its applications,...
While IP as a SAN platform may fall in to the “ emerging ” category in the storage world , IP and Ethernet have longstanding maturity and robustness from decades of use in the networking world . 5.1.1 Risk and Total Cost of Ownership ...
2.5.1 RAID 0: block-by-block striping RAID 0 distributes the data that the server writes to the virtual hard disk onto one physical hard disk after another block-by-block (block-by-block striping). Figure 2.9 shows a RAID array with ...
This book will help you address the questions of when, where, with what, and how to leverage cloud, virtual, and data storage networking as part of your IT infrastructure.
Market_Desc: The book provides basic application information key for systems administrators, database administrators and managers who need to know about the networking aspects of their systems.