
Network Storage
Tools and Technologies for Storing Your Company’s Data
Description
Key Features
- Puts all the new developments in storage networking in a clear perspective for near-term and long-term planning
- Offers a complete overview of storage networking, serving as a go-to resource for creating a coherent implementation plan
- Provides the details needed to understand the area, and clears a path through the confusion and hype that surrounds such a radical revolution of the industry
Readership
IT managers and administrators, network system sales and marketing staff, network system integrators and support staff, Networking students, faculty, and researchers
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Why Storage Matters
Chapter 2. Storage From 30,000 Feet
- What Is Computer Storage?
- Storage Today
- Storage in 3Years
- The Distant Future: 2019 and Beyond
Chapter 3. Network Infrastructure Today
- Storage Area Networks in Transition
- Filer (NAS—Network-Attached Storage)
- Scaling to Infinity—Object Storage
- Hard Drives
- The Solid-State Revolution
- RDMA—the Impact of All-Flash and Hybrid Arrays
- Optimizing the Datacenter
- Q&A
Chapter 4. Storage Software
- Traditional Solutions
- Pools, Lakes, and Oceans
- Compression, Deduplication, and All That
- Open-Source Software
- Virtualization Tools
- The Operating System Storage Stack
Chapter 5. Software-Defined Storage
- Prelude
- Software-Defined Storage
- A Completely New Approach
- Who are the Players?
- “Lego” Storage
- Connecting the Pieces
- Unified Storage Appliances
- Agility and Flexibility
- The Implications of SDS to the Datacenter
- SDS and the Cloud
- The Current State of SDS
- The Future of the Storage Industry
Chapter 6. Today’s Hot Issues
- NAS Versus SAN Versus Object Storage
- Ethernet and the End of the SAN
- Commoditization and the Storage Network
Chapter 7. Tuning the Network
- Getting up to Speed
- Tuning for Fast Systems
- The New Storage Tiers
- Caching Data
- SSD and the File System
- What Tuning Could Mean in 5-Years’ Time
Chapter 8. Big Data
- Addressing Big-Data Bottlenecks
Chapter 9. High-Performance Computing
- Major Scientific Experiments
- Big Simulations
- Surveillance Systems
- The Trading Floor
- High-Performance Computing Clouds
- Video Editing
- Oil and Gas
Chapter 10. The Cloud
- What Is the Cloud?
- Cloud Hardware
- The Future of Cloud Hardware
- Cloud Software
- The Changing Datacenter Density, Cooling, and Power
- Using Cloud Storage
- Hybrid Clouds
- Hardware of the Cloud Over the Next Decade
- Software of the Cloud Over the Next Decade
Chapter 11. Data Integrity
- RAID and Its Problems
- Replication
- Erasure Coding
- Disaster Protection in the Cloud
Chapter 12. Data Security
- Losing Your Data
- Protecting Cloud Data
- Hybrid Clouds and Data Governance
- Encryption
- Information Rights Management
Chapter 13. On the Horizon
- Solid-State Replaces Spinning Rust
- NVDIMMs: Changing the Balance of Storage
- The Hybrid Memory Cube
- Virtual SANs
- Internet of Things
Chapter 14. Just Over the Horizon
- NAND Killers
- Graphene
- Further Out
Product details
- No. of pages: 280
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Morgan Kaufmann 2016
- Published: October 13, 2016
- Imprint: Morgan Kaufmann
- eBook ISBN: 9780128038659
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128038635