November 2001
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
7h 58m
English
To clarify the roles of new storage networking technologies and applications, the SNIA has been developing a shared storage architectural model. The Shared Storage Model is a work-in-progress of the SNIA Technical Council, which in turn is composed of technologists from a variety of SNIA member companies.
An architectural model provides value by abstracting a complex technology into its most basic components. It has particular value for storage networking, because as a technology it embodies entirely new concepts, structures, applications, and infrastructures. NAS and SAN, for example, have struggled in the marketplace as contending storage networking solutions. Marketing-driven distinctions, however, become ...
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