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Holy Grail of Network Storage Management, The
By Jon William Toigo
Publisher	: Prentice Hall PTR
Pub Date	: October 27, 2003
ISBN	: 0-13-028416-5
Pages	: 304

		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
			SAN s 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 SAN s and Metcalfe's Law
			What, When, and Where iSCSI
			Why IP SAN s?
			Conclusion
		Chapter 5.  The Quest for Networked Storage: Many Roads to Rome
			The Zen Riddle of Storage Networking
			Block and File
			NAS / SAN 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
			SAN s 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