IP Storage Networking

"For those considering network storage consolidation, Straight to the Core walks the reader through both the how and why of IP and Ethernet's flexibility." Larry Boucher, CEO Alacritech"A forward-looking work with excellent technical content. Orenstein knows his stuff...enough technical meat to satisfy the engineers and business overview of continuance strategies to satisfy CIOs/managers/planners."Tom Clark, SNIA board member and author of IP SANsMaximizing the business value of enterprise storage technology Soon, you'll be managing 100x more data than you are today -- with even greater demands for availability and business continuity. IP Storage Networking: Straight to the Core gives you a complete blueprint for meeting that challenge. Enterprise storage expert Gary Orenstein delivers expert guidance for evaluating, architecting, and implementing IP-based storage technologies...and for maximizing the business value of storage across a range of your requirements. Orenstein covers all this, and more: 

• Enterprise storage networking: current options, future trends 
• New storage strategies: from disaster recovery to operational agility 
• A complete software infrastructure for managing enterprise storage 
• The evolution of distributed storage intelligence 
• Outsourcing storage and managing storage-related SLAs 
• IP-based SANs: iSCSI, topologies, security, and other key issues 
• Implementing policies that protect data and facilitate recovery 
• Measuring and maximizing ROI on enterprise storage investments 

Whether you're a technical or business professional, IP Storage Networking: Straight to the Core will help you develop storage action plans that leverage innovation to maximize value on every dime you invest.

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Designing Storage Area Networks

This is a fully updated revision of Designing Storage Area Networks. It collapses or removes dated material from the original edition and adds new content, particularly in the area of Fibre Channel fabrics, IP SANs and storage virtualization. Storage area networks are now recognized as the preferred solution for fulfilling a wide range of critical data storage needs for institutions and enterprises. The success of SANs in establishing real end-user value is affirmed by the adoption of the technology by all major solution providers as their flagship server and storage offerings. IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun, Dell and others now provide certified SAN configurations for performance, high availability and backup of storage data, while storage vendors such as EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, XIOtech and others offer SAN interfaces on their premier products. While the current market penetration of SAN-based solutions is only 20% of the total storage market, SANs are expected to capture the majority of the market within a few years.

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iSCSI

There are two core ways to implement Storage Area Networks (SANs) -- the traditional way, Fibre Channel, which is a direct link via cable, and the emerging way, IP SANs, whereby you access storage via the internet. Within IP SANs there are a number of important protocols including FCIP, iFCP, and iSCSI. iSCSI is an evolution of SCSI protocol that allows computers to talk to their hard disks, tapes, etc. The new iSCSI protocol carries SCSI commands over IP networks to facilitate data transfers over intranets and to manage storage over long distances. This book offers System and Storage engineers a quick and easy way to become familiar with the iSCSI protocols, with needed insight to its applicability.

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