The Essential Guide to Storage Area Networks

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Summary: All you ever wanted to know about storage and SANs
Review: Vacca has done it again--"it" being a highly comprehensive, fact-laden treatment of an important information technology subject; in this case, SANs. Part 1 of the book provides an overview of SAN technology, starting with SAN fundamentals--and giving scant notice to network attached storage, which some once considered the competitor of SANs. Part 2 proceeds to designing SANs, while Part 3 addresses planning for SANs, Part 4 deals with installing and deploying SANs, Part 5 discusses maintaining SANs, and Part 6 deals with SAN solutions and future directions. In short, the book provides all you ever wanted to know about storage and SANs, completed by six appendices and a glossary. Vacca has provided a meaty discussion that will prove essential for all those trying to make costly decisions about SANs in their organizations.

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Summary: Vacca has done it again! Confusion cleared.
Review: Vacca has done it! He has written another book that is very easy to read; and, for people who need to cut through the confusion about SANs and get down to product selection, acquisition, and deployment. The book starts with the basic concepts and takes the readers through all of the necessary learning steps to enable then to implement a SAN.

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Summary: Everything The IT Professional Needs To Know About SANs
Review: With storage accounting for a larger and larger portion of the IT budget, this text is the definitive source for any IT professional considering implementing or upgrading a storage area network. Vacca begins with giving the reader an understanding of the technology then leads the reader through the planning, design and implementation of SAN for any type of business. Especially useful are the sections on maintaining SANs and the future directions of this technology.