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- Main Page
- Main Page
- Table of content
- Copyright
- About Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Conspiracy Theory
- The Storage Industry: Fear of Standards and Commoditization
- The Road to Unification?
- Yesterday s Resellers, Tomorrow s Competitors
- About This Book
- Endnotes
- Chapter 2. The Data Explosion and Matters of the Disk
- The Data Explosion Myth
- Deconstructing the Data Explosion Myth
- Fact and Fiction in Networked Storage
- From Evolution to Revolution: The Myth of the Fibre Channel SAN
- Endnotes
- Chapter 3. 21st Century Oxymorons: Jumbo Shrimp and Fibre Channel SAN
- SANs and Capacity Allocation Efficiency
- The V Word
- Capacity Utilization Efficiency: Another Grail
- What About Management?
- Conclusion
- Endnotes
- Chapter 4. Sanity Check on IP SANs
- IP SANs and Metcalfe s Law
- What, When, and Where iSCSI
- Why IP SANs?
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5. The Quest for Networked Storage: Many Roads to Rome
- The Zen Riddle of Storage Networking
- Block and File
- NASSAN Hybrids
- Conclusion
- Endnotes
- Chapter 6. Making Storage Platforms Smarter
- The Sources of Storage Infrastructure Value
- Barriers to Growth in Disk and Consequences for Platform Decision Making
- Media Materials Are Key
- Capacity Versus Performance and Other Economic Realities
- Economic Realities
- Back to Architecture
- Disk and Array Selection Criteria
- Storage Intelligence Begins With Informed and Pragmatic Device Decisions
- Endnotes
- Chapter 7. Virtualization: Still a Dirty Word?
- A Brief Overview of Virtualization in IT
- SANs and Virtualization
- Host Software-Based Virtualization
- In-Band Virtualization
- Out-of-Band Virtualization
- Array Controller-Based Virtualization
- Are Switches the New Virtualization Platform?
- Back to Reality
- Endnotes
- Chapter 8. Squeezing Real Value from Storage
- What is Capacity Utilization Efficiency?
- Hierarchical Storage Management
- A Brief Overview of Storage Management Architecture
- Product-Centric Management
- Infrastructure-Centric or Storage Resource Management (SRM)
- Application-Centric Management
- Data-Centric Storage Management
- Not Speculation
- In the Absence of a Data-Centric Storage Management Solution
- Endnotes
- Chapter 9. Final Word: Tape is Dead . . . Maybe
- Data Protection
- The Backup Versus Mirror Debate
- Tape is Not a Panacea
- Mirroring is Not a Silver Bullet
- Enhanced Backup Options Exist
- Attacking Backup Time
- DDT: Not the Pesticide, the Other DDT
- Saving Restore Time
- The Bottom Line About Bolt-Ons
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