A Complete Guide to Understanding and Implementing SANs
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RICHARD BARKER is a Senior Vice President of VERITAS Software Corporation. Previously he was Senior Vice President of Product Division in both OpenVision Technologies and Oracle Corporation. He is also the author of three books on systems engineering and a former board member of the Storage Area Networking Association. PAUL MASSIGLIA is a Technical Director of Engineering at VERITAS Software Corporation. He has spent the last twenty years working with technology in the storage sector in both engineering and product management. Massiglia is a member of the Board of Directors of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and is the author of three previous books on storage.
Acknowledgments. Foreword. Introduction. PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING STORAGE NETWORKING. What Storage Networking Is and What It Can Mean to You. Benefits: What to Expect from SANs. Leading up to SANs: One View of Data Center Evolution. Killer Apps for SANs. PART TWO: THE PARTS: WHAT'S IN A SAN. Storage Networking Architecture. The Storage in Storage Networking. The Network in Storage Networking. Basic Software for Storage Networking. Advanced Software for Storage Networking. Enterprise Backup Software for Storage Area Networks. PART THREE: SAN IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES. Adopting Storage Networking. Managing SANs. Afterword: Speculations on the Future of SAN. Appendix: Storage Networking Organizations. Dictionary of Storage Networking Terminology. Index.