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| List of Illustrations | |
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| List of Tables | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface | |
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| Theory of Storage Management | |
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| Data Storage Trends Beyond the Millennium: The Road to Chaos | |
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| A Paradigm Shift | |
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| The Road to Chaos | |
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| Storage Management Defined | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Why Storage Management? | |
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| Increased Risk of Data Loss | |
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| Increased Personnel Cost | |
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| Increased Storage Acquisition Costs | |
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| Increased Downtime due to Storage-Related Issues | |
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| Increased Downtime due to Absence of an Availability-Optimized Architecture | |
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| Decreased Performance in Applications | |
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| Diminished End User Confidence and Satisfaction | |
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| Impediments to Storage Management | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Storage in the Modern Distributed Enterprise | |
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| Data Distribution Models Evolve | |
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| Distributed-Anarchical Data Distribution | |
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| Regionalized-Managed Data Distribution | |
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| Centralized-Managed Data Distribution | |
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| A Continuum of Options | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Storage Technologies | |
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| The Perpetuation of a Disk-Based Storage Strategy | |
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| Evolution of Hard Disk Technology | |
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| Enabling Technology for Disk Drive Advancement | |
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| Read-Write Heads | |
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| Other Drive Improvements | |
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| New Initiatives in Drive Technology | |
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| PRML Channel Technology and Enhanced Management Features | |
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| Interfaces: Connecting Storage for Efficient Use | |
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| Advanced Technology Attachment/Intelligent Disk Electronics (ATA/IDE) Interface | |
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| Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) | |
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| Ultra SCSI | |
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| Serial Storage Architecture (SSA) | |
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| Fibre Channel | |
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| Thinking Outside the Box | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| RAID | |
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| Disk Storage Sub-systems: Cutting the Tether | |
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| RAID Levels | |
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| RAID 1 | |
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| RAID 2 | |
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| RAID 3 | |
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| RAID 4 | |
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| RAID 5 | |
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| Beyond RAID 5 | |
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| Implementing RAID | |
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| Software RAID | |
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| Host-Based Adapter RAID | |
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| External Controller-Based Raid | |
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| Stand-Alone Arrays | |
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| RAID Objectives Scorecard | |
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| Data Availability | |
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| Performance | |
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| Storage Capacity | |
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| Lower Storage Cost | |
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| Another Objective: Storage Sharing | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| The Advent of SANs | |
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| Fibre Channel: A SCSI Replacement? | |
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| Networking Concepts for Storage Managers | |
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| SAN Hubs | |
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| SAN Switches | |
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| Other SAN Hardware Components | |
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| SANS: Problems Solved, Issues Remain | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Network-Attached Storage (NAS) and Storage Appliances | |
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| Distributed Storage Using NAS | |
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| Defining Terms | |
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| NAS and the Thin-Server Revolution | |
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| The NAS Operating System | |
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| Differences in Kernel Implementation | |
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| Anatomy of a NAS Operating System | |
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| Homogeneous NAS File Systems | |
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| Enhancing File Systems and MultiProtocol File Access | |
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| A Kludge at Best | |
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| Integrating NAS with the Enterprise Storage Infrastructure | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Secondary Storage: New Roles for Tape | |
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| The Market for Tape | |
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| Tape in the Large Systems Market | |
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| Tape Products Crowd the Mid-Range | |
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| DLT: King of the Mountain | |
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| Knocking DLT of the Top of the Hill | |
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| QIC Tape and Its Descendents | |
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| Travan | |
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| Scalable Linear Recording (SLR) | |
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| 4 mm and 8 mm Contenders | |
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| Digital Data Storage (DDS) | |
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| Mammoth | |
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| Advanced Information Technology (AIT) | |
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| New Players Enter the Mid-Range | |
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| Linear Tape Open (LTO) | |
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| Ecrix and VXA | |
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| Into the Rack | |
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| Back to NFR | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Wither Optical Technologies? | |
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| Magneto-Optical Technology Evolves | |
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| Limdow | |
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| Phase-Change Optical Media | |
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| Media Selection Criteria | |
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| DVD Formats Proliferate | |
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| Seeing the Future of Optical Clearly | |
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| Storage Management Techniques | |
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| Implementing Enterprise Storage Management | |
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| Needs Assessment Phase | |
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| Policy Development Phase | |
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| Architecture Definition Phase | |
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| Storage Management Tools Evaluation Phase | |
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| Implementation and Testing Phase | |
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| Monitoring and Management Phase | |
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| Change Management Phase | |
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| Model versus Reality | |
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| Continued Obstacles | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| The Storage Infrastructure Perspective | |
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| From a Repository to an Infrastructure View | |
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| A Dynamic Data Movement Example: HSM | |
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| SAN Architecture Forces Storage Infrastructure Viewpoint | |
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| Storage Infrastructure Requirements for Data Warehouse Applications | |
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| Storage-Related Data Layout Requirements for Databases | |
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| Storage Infrastructure Requirements for Multimedia Applications | |
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| The Storage Infrastructure Perspective | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Back To The Future | |
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| Considerations for Selecting a Backup Strategy | |
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| Remote Mirroring | |
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| Hierarchical Storage Management | |
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| The Impact of HSM on Storage Planning | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Holy Grail | |
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| Sun Microsystems And StoreX | |
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| Compaq's ENSA | |
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| EMC'S Enterprise Storage Networks | |
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| Other Visions | |
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| The Quest Continues | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |