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Storage Virtualization: Technologies for Simplifying Data Storage and Management
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by Tom Clark
Sales Rank: 178276
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List Price: $39.99
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Paperback: 264 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional March 24, 2005
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321262514
ISBN-13: 978-0321262516
Product Dimensions:
9 x 6.5 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
Product Description
Storage virtualization is a new field that has considerable interest forinformation technology managers. There is currently no single work thatprovides an objective, technical explanation of virtualization technologies.This book examines new storage virtualization technologies that automate datastorage processes, including data placement, replication, and back-up. Storagevirtualization is designed to ease storage management by presenting yourstorage network's physical assets in a logical form. Making storage networkseasier to manage can save a company money and make a storage network moreefficient. Storage Virtualization provides a technical overview of howvirtualization applications work and also includes practical case examples fromthe real world. Topics covered include: virtualizing at the host level, fabricbasedvirtualization, virtualization appliances, virtualized file systems,virtualization engines, and virtualized tape back-up.
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"Tom Clark gives us a clear, readable guide to this emerging technology. He explains how it works, what problems it solves, and where it fits in an evolving IT infrastructure."
Milan Merhar
"Tom Clark gives us a strong overview of contemporary storage technology with storage virtualization as the central themea valuable work for all those seeking a broad understanding of storage in an IT infrastructure."
David Thiel, HP Fellow and Chair of the SNIA Technical Council
"Storage virtualization technology holds immense promise for streamlining data storage operations and making the unmanageable manageable. In this work, Tom Clark provides a comprehensive overview of virtualization concepts and the practical benefits customers can realize. Storage Virtualization is recommended reading for anyone wanting to understand this next wave of innovative networked storage technology."
John Webster, Founder and Senior Analyst, Data Mobility Group
Evaluating, Planning, and Implementing High-Value Storage Virtualization Solutions
Storage virtualization has come of age, offering IT professionals powerful new ways to simplify infrastructure, streamline management, improve utilization, and reduce costs. Now, the author of the best-selling storage books IP SANs and Designing Storage Area Networks presents an up-to-the-minute, vendor-neutral overview of storage virtualization in all its forms.
Writing for IT managers, administrators, architects, analysts, consultants, and vendors, Tom Clark explains everything from the basics to the latest emerging standards. Storage Virtualization uses realistic examples and diagrams to explain each key concept, concluding with case studies that demonstrate real-world implementation and help you assess the technology's business value. Coverage includes
The current state of both storage virtualization technologies and the marketplace
Relationships among files, records, data on disk, and storage interconnections
Virtualization standards, including the Fabric Application Interface Standard
How multiple storage systems are abstracted into virtual storage pools
Host-based virtualization, array-based virtualization, and virtualization appliances
Virtualization services for high availability and heterogeneous storage applications
Virtualized SAN file systems that simplify file management and support distributed computing
Virtualized tape backup, including Redundant Array of Independent Tape (RAIT) devices
Policy-based storage management, application-sensitive virtualization intelligence, and other high-level automation and virtualization services
The future of storage virtualization and storage utilities
Extensive resource listings: vendors, industry organizations, and standards initiatives
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Customer Reviews & Comments
This book describes the basics of modern storage virtualization at an introductory level. The reader should have a basic technical background but does not need know much about storage. There are fourteen chapters each of which covers one aspect of storage. Topics include: host, server and fabric based virtualization. Additional topics such as various types of file systems as well as protocols such as Fibre, NFS, iscsi are also covered. The main drawback is the lack of details. Each topic is covered in about ~10-15 pages which is barely enough to scratch the surface. Therefore anyone who is seriously interested in a particular topic will have to find other material to really dig in. On the positive side, the presentation is simple enough that the book may be read rather quickly. I would recommend it to anyone who is getting into storage and wants a summary of all the major topics in an easy to read book.
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Storage Virtualization: Technologies for Simplifying Data Storage and Management
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