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I

I-bus (internal bus), 97

IDS (intrusion detection system), 422

IEEE1394 standard, 110111

image processing case study, 453464

import auto industry case study, 465476

in- band management functions, 246247

Industry Standard Architecture (ISA), 99

InfiniBand standard, 268, 343346, 496

infrastructure, 361

Initial Sequences Numbers (ISNs), 438439

inodes, 120, 166

instances, 127

integrity, 425

internal bus (I-bus), 97

International Image Processing Company case study, 453464

Internet

Common Internet File System. See CIFS

data stored on. See web-based storage

servers on, 14, 21

WIT workloads, 304307, 327328

Internet NAS architecture, 139141

Internet Protocol. See IP

Internet SCSI. See iSCSI

Internet service providers (ISPs),1415, 185

interrupt processing, 98

interswitch linking (ISL) functions, 249251

intrusion detection system (IDS), 422

I/O bandwidth, 344345

I/O buffer pool, 146

I/O bus standard, 18

I/O buses, 9798, 109113

I/O channels, 9698

I/O content, 156, 285290

I/O device addressing, 145

I/O fabric, 344345

I/O manager

described, 144145

features, 145146

NAS hardware as, 144152

NAS software as, 171174

I/O operations

block, 337338, 342343

distributing, 5356

NAS, 134137, 144152, 156, 339

Rapid I/O, 346347

SANs, 5356, 337338, 340

shared I/O, 112113

WIT I/O, 327

I/O operations performed per second (IOPS), 156

I/O priority interface, 146

I/O subsystem, 145146

I/O systems, 78

I/O workloads, 275292

attributes, 281284

business applications, 281284

capacity planning and, 405406

characterization of, 278280

considerations, 290292

data organizational model, 285290

data paths, 289290

defined, 278

integration with web services, 341

NAS, 173174

storage networking and, 290292

user access, 287289

workload solutions matrix, 292

See also workloads

IOPS (I/O operations performed per second), 156

IP (Internet Protocol), 80

IP access points, 262

IP addresses, 189191

IP communications, 102

IP packets, 102

IP ports, 222

ISA (Industry Standard Architecture), 99

iSCSI configurations, 342344

iSCSI devices, 264

iSCSI (Internet SCSI) standard, 276, 496

ISL functions, 242, 249252

ISL (interswitch linking) functions, 242, 249251

ISNs (Initial Sequences Numbers), 438439

ISPs (Internet service providers), 1415, 185

IT organizations

effects of storage networks on, 3334

storage networking needs, 2123

IT utility programs, 56