Smith Data Center Storage

Cost-Effective Strategies, Implementation, and Management
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4398-3488-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten

We overspend on data center storage … yet, we fall short of business requirements. It's not about the technologies. It's about the proper application of technologies to deliver storage services efficiently and affordably. It’s about meeting business requirements dependent on data center storage. Spend less, deliver more.

Data Center Storage: Cost-Effective Strategies, Implementation, and Management provides an industry insider’s insight on how to properly scope, plan, evaluate, and implement storage technologies to maximize performance, capacity, reliability, and power savings. It provides business and use-case focused coverage of storage technology, including storage area networks (SAN), capacity-optimized drives, and solid-state drives. It offers key insights on financially responsible spending for data center storage.
Delivered in accessible language, the book starts with a discussion of the business merits of replacing direct attached, compartmentalized storage with consolidated SAN-attached storage. The author advises on the use of service level applications (SLAs) as a tool to drive business unit collaboration with IT and prioritize those actions that impact productivity and profit from those that are less critical. This business guide to applied technologies disassembles big problems into digestible segments to help you understand, quantify, and fix any problems that arise as you work towards meeting your growing storage needs.
The book builds on the consolidation and SLA driven approach to take advantage of the compelling benefits and potential savings of managed hosting and cloud storage.

Zielgruppe

IT managers, data center managers, and CIOs.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Hubbert

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Wissensmanagement
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Computerkommunikation & -vernetzung Cloud-Computing, Grid-Computing
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Daten / Datenbanken

Inhaltsverzeichnis

What, Exactly, Will We Accomplish?
The One Reason Every CIO or IT Manager Should Read This
At Risk of Ruining the Ending
Business Data
Building Blocks, Power, and ConsolidationThe Disk Drive: The Fundamental Building Block of Enterprise Storage
Power and AC
Storage Consolidation
Service Level Overview
Uptime, Reliability, and SLAs
Storage Tiering and SLAs
Service Level Agreements and IT Bill-Back
Demonstrating Delivery on SLA Service Levels
Planning for Growth and Storage Tiering
Wrap-Up: Projects Within Reach
Managing Aging Data and E-Mail Expenses
Migration and Retiring Aging Systems
Shared Folders and Content Management
Storage Strategies for E-Mail
Spending Wisely on Performance
Performance and Backup
The Right Tools for Reliability, Uptime, Disaster Recovery, and Archiving
Reliability and Server Failover
Reliability and Continuous Data Protection, Synchronous Replication
Reliability and Near-Continuous Data Protection, Asynchronous Replication
Reliability and Data Integrity (T10-DIF or T10-PI)
Virtualization Overview: Focus on the Business Benefits
Storage Virtualization
Virtualization, Storage Tiers, and Manual Data Movement
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
Converged NAS and SAN
Storage for Nontraditional IT Applications
Wrap-Up: Projects Within Reach
Managed Hosting and Cloud
Managed Hosting and Cloud Computing
The Business Driving Managed Hosting: What It Means to You
Managed Hosting Vetting Process
Why Cloud is Relevant
Implementing Cloud Storage in Your Operation
Hybrid Cloud
Cloud Spectrum of Options
End Game and Hardware Roadmap to Leverage the Cloud
Strategy and Execution
Constructing a Roadmap
Risk Management
Wrap-Up: Projects Within Reach
Conclusion

Appendix A: Storage Protocol Basics
Appendix B: Project Management
Appendix C: People, Process, Technology
Appendix D: Root Cause, Corrective Action Process
Glossary
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mr. Smith is an enterprise storage veteran with 25+ years of experience at Kodak, NCR, Intel, WDC, Samsung, and currently with LSI. He is a published author: Serial ATA Architectures and Applications; and patent holder: USPTO 7,007,142 Network Data Storage-related operations.

Mr. Smith successfully managed 25 tech projects, negotiated and executed 15 significant technology-related business deals, and was a significant contributor in establishing the Serial ATA industry.