Building Storage Networks

Marc Farley started working with network storage technology in 1991 at Palindrome Corporation as a systems engineer and has been in the network storage field ever since working in business development, product management, and strategic marketing at Hitachi, Crossroads Systems, and ConvergeNet. He is currently the Vice President of Marketing for Solution-Soft, a company developing and marketing appliance applications.

Part I: Introduction to Network Storage. The Network Storage Landscape. Piecing Together a Path for Storage I/O. Part II: Established Applications in Network Storage. Disk Mirroring for Data Protection, Availability, and Performance. Enhancing Performance with Caching and Other Techniques. Boosting Availability and Performance with RAID and Disk Subsystems. Network Backup: The Foundation of Storage Management. Part III: Network Access to Storage. Comparing SAN and NAS Technologies. SAN Designs. Building Better Backup Systems with SANS. Fibre Channel Networking Technology for Storage Networks. Part IV: Network Attached Storage Devices and Other Advanced Topics. Plug and Play Storage with NAS. Distributing Intelligence and Data Sharing in the SAN. Accessing Data on S/390 MVS Mainframes from a SAN. Clustered Storage and I/O Directions. Storing and Retrieving Data on the Internet.