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Understanding Storage Area Networks

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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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SAN Essentials

Contents

What Is a Storage Area Network?

  • What Makes a SAN Different?
  • What Makes a Good SAN?
  • What Makes a Great SAN?

Why Connect Storage to a Network?

The Secret to SANs' Success: Software

  • SAN Software Capability
  • Summarizing SANs and Software

The Best Is Yet to Come: Radical Changes in Information Storage and Processing

  • Best-in-Class Computer Systems
  • Smarter Storage and Appliances
  • Heterogeneous Computer Systems
  • Data Storage as a Service

Back to Earth ....A Couple of Closing Clarifications

  • Is a SAN Storage or a Network?
  • What Is This Area Thing, Anyway?
  • Is NAS Just SAN Spelled Backward?
  • Summary

In this chapter we'll learn more about:

  • What a storage area network is
  • What properties a storage area network must have, should have, and may have
  • The importance of software to storage area networks
  • Why information services professionals should be interested in storage networking
  • Information processing capabilities enabled by storage area networks
  • Some quirks in the vocabulary of storage networking

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