What Storage Networking Is and What It Can Mean to You
from Storage Area Network Essentials, by Richard Barker & Paul Massiglia.
Copyright© 2002, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York. Used by Permission.
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Contents
What Is a Storage Area Network?
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What Makes a SAN Different?
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What Makes a Good SAN?
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What Makes a Great SAN?
Why Connect Storage to a Network?
The Secret to SANs' Success: Software
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SAN Software Capability
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Summarizing SANs and Software
The Best Is Yet to Come: Radical Changes in Information Storage and Processing
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Best-in-Class Computer Systems
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Smarter Storage and Appliances
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Heterogeneous Computer Systems
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Data Storage as a Service
Back to Earth ....A Couple of Closing Clarifications
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Is a SAN Storage or a Network?
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What Is This Area Thing, Anyway?
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Is NAS Just SAN Spelled Backward?
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Summary
In this chapter we'll learn more about:
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What a storage area network is
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What properties a storage area network must have, should have, and may have
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The importance of software to storage area networks
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Why information services professionals should be interested in storage networking
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Information processing capabilities enabled by storage area networks
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Some quirks in the vocabulary of storage networking
