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The Holy Grail of Network Storage Management

ISBN: 0130284165
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2003
Pages: 96

Authors: Jon William Toigo

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• 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
• Endnotes
• Chapter 10. The Cone of Silence
• A Security Capability for Storage
• The Three A s of Security
• Which is More Secure: IP or Fibre Channel?
• Burgeoning Technologies
• Storage Encryption
• Adapting Other Security Concepts to Storage
• Conclusion
• Endnotes
• Chapter 11. Conclusion: Joining the Quest for the Holy Grail
• The Solution is Out There
• Professionalism, Pragmatism, and Consumerism
• What is to be Done?
• Endnotes
• Glossary