I highly recommend this book to IT professionals looking to design and build high performance storage solutions.</a></p> </blockquote> <p id="quoteAuthor">— Jack Herrington, Code Generation Network</p></div>
<p>Storage Networks will appeal to any systems administrator, architect, or manager with large data resources to manage, rather than being based on a specific vendor offering.</p>
<p>This book stresses the application of the technology to non-traditional IT buyers such as video and music production studios and medical diagnostic imaging technicians. With the rapid adoption of digital processing for images and sound, storage networks have a great use outside of the data center. At the same time, the benefits of recoverability, performance, and manageability will benefit any storage network user. This book appeals to both sets of readers.</p>
Customer Reviews & Comments
Worden gives us an excellent explanation of the many facets of a storage network. My sense of this book is that it is well suited for a new system administrator, or one who has had only a few years experience. The book also has merit for a manager of IT staff, who may not necessarily hail from a technical background. Or for a computer user thinking of setting up or extending her personal network. Why do I say this? Because Worden's level of technical detail is well written enough to convey the concepts easily to the reader. For example, when he explains the different RAID levels. The figures for each RAID level are simple and well drawn. In 10 years of encountering RAID documentation, often written by vendors of such equipment, I haven't come across a visual and written explanation as clearly given as here. The deepest level of detail is when he talks about SCSI. If you don't need this resolution of detail, you can easily bypass it. The chapter on vendor offerings is, by its very nature, ephemeral. By 2006, it will be outmoded. But the other chapters will still be germane. One minor correction. Moore's Law is named after Gordon Moore, not George Moore.
