November 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1200 pages
78h 13m
English
Robert Rounsavall, Terremark Worldwide, Inc.
Storage area networking (SAN) devices have become a critical IT component of almost every business today. The upside and intended consequences of using a SAN are to consolidate corporate data as well as reduce cost, complexity, and risks. The tradeoff and downside to implementing SAN technology are that the risks of large-scale data loss are higher in terms of both cost and reputation. With the rapid adoption of virtualization, SANs now house more than just data; they house entire virtual servers and huge clusters of servers in “enterprise clouds.”1 In addition to all the technical, management, deployment, and protection challenges, a SAN comes ...
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