Understanding Storage Area Networks
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
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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
