Storage Area Network Essentials: A Complete Guide to Understanding and Implementing SANs
- 10h 22m
- Paul Massiglia, Richard Barker
- John Wiley & Sons (US)
- 2002
Electronic commerce has made traditional data storage methods obsolete. The need for full-time data access, as well as the sharing of storage and data by multiple applications, has given rise to a completely new data storage paradigm—the Storage Area Network (SAN). SANs are already revolutionizing distributed computing. In this comprehensive book, two top technology experts from VERITAS Software Corporation take you through all facets of storage networking. They first show you how a SAN can help consolidate conventional server storage onto networks. Then they explain how a SAN cam help make applications highly available no matter how much data is being stored, which, in turn, makes data access and management faster and easier. Along the way, they provide you with invaluable advice on the design and deployment of technology and how it works to make your decision to adopt storage networking easier, and give you an appreciation of the benefits that you are likely to realize.
With this book, you’ll find detailed, up-to-date coverage on:
- The evolution of computing in data centers and how it has led to SANs
- Killer applications for SANs
- Storage networking and what it means to an enterprise information processing architecture
- The storage, network, and software components required for storage networking
- Issues in SAN implementation and management
About the Authors
Richard Barker is a Senior Vice President of VERITAS Software Corporation. Previously he was Senior Vice President of Product Division in both OpenVision Technologies and Oracle Corporation. He is also the author of three books on systems engineering and former board member of the Storage Area Networking Association.
Paul Massiglia is a Technical Director of Engineering at VERITAS Software Corporation. He has spent the last twenty years working with technology in the storage sector in both engineering and product management. Massiglia is a member of the Board of Directors of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and is the author of three previous books on storage.
In this Book
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Storage Area Network Essentials—A Complete Guide to Understanding and Implementing SANs
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Foreword
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Introduction
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Chapter 1: What Storage Networking Is and What It Can Mean to You
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Benefits: What to Expect from SANs
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Leading Up to SANs: One View of Data Center Evolution
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Killer Apps for SANs
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Storage Networking Architecture
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The Storage in Storage Networking
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The Network in Storage Networking
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Chapter 8: Basic Software for Storage Networking
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Advanced Software for Storage Networking
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Chapter 10: Enterprise Backup Software for Storage Area Networks
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Adopting Storage Networking
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Managing SANs
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Afterword--Speculations on the Future of SANs
