| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Ch. 1 Why Storage Matters -- References -- ch. 2 Storage From 30,000 Feet -- What Is Computer Storage? -- Storage Today -- The Large Corporation -- Mid-sized Operations -- The Small Business -- Storage in 3 Years -- The Distant Future: 2019 and Beyond -- References -- ch. 3 Network Infrastructure Today -- Storage Area Networks in Transition -- How SANs Work -- iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface) SANs -- SAN Use Cases -- Upsides of SANs -- Downsides of SANs -- The Future of SANs -- Filer (NAS -- Network-Attached Storage) -- How Filers Work -- Comparing NAS with SAN -- NFS, CIFS, SMB, Linux, and Windows -- Filer Use Cases -- Upsides of filers -- Downsides of Filers -- Filer Myths -- Filer Futures -- Scaling to Infinity -- Object Storage -- How Object Storage Works -- Use Cases for Object Storage -- Upsides to Object Storage -- Downsides to Object Storage -- Object Storage Myths -- Hard Drives -- How Hard Drives Work -- SAS and SATA. |
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Upsides to Hard Drives -- Downsides to Hard Drives -- Hard Drive Myths -- The Solid-State Revolution -- How Do Flash and SSD Work? -- Improving Flash Capacity -- Deletion Problems in Flash -- Packaging Flash -- The NVMe Revolution -- Upsides of Flash -- Downsides of Flash -- Myths of Flash and SSD -- The Future of Flash and SSD -- RDMA -- The Impact of All-Flash and Hybrid Arrays -- How RDMA Works -- Use Cases for RDMA -- Comparison of InfiniBand, iWARP, and RoCE -- Upsides of RDMA -- Downsides of RDMA -- The Future of RDMA -- Optimizing the Datacenter -- Some Use Cases -- Q & A -- Is the Approach to Storage Different in the HPC/Big Data World? -- How Do Falling Solid-State Prices Affect Planning? -- What About Hybrid Arrays? -- Should I Consider Ethernet SANs? -- References -- ch. 4 Storage Software -- Traditional Solutions -- Pools, Lakes, and Oceans -- Compression, Deduplication, and All That -- Deduplication -- Compression. |
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Problems With Compression and Deduplication Today -- Open-Source Software -- OpenStack -- Ceph -- GlusterFS -- Virtualization Tools -- VMware -- Virtual SANs -- The Operating System Storage Stack -- The Traditional SCSI Stack -- The NVMe Stack and Beyond -- Ethernet Drives and Key/Data Access Protocols -- References -- ch. 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 -- References -- ch. 6 Today's Hot Issues -- NAS Versus SAN Versus Object Storage -- Ethernet and the End of the SAN -- Commoditization and the Storage Network -- References -- ch. 7 Tuning the Network -- Getting up to Speed -- Let Me Reach Out to Those People Now! |
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Tuning for Fast Systems -- The (Virtual) Desktop -- The Instance Store -- Networked Storage -- SAN -- Networked Storage -- NAS Filer -- Tuning SSD -- The Virtual SAN -- Tuning for Virtual Clusters -- Tuning for Big Data -- Tuning the Storage Network -- Tuning for the Cloud -- The New Storage Tiers -- Caching Data -- SSD and the File System -- What Tuning Could Mean in 5-Years' Time -- References -- ch. 8 Big Data -- Addressing Big-Data Bottlenecks -- Network Bandwidth -- Speeding In-Memory Computing -- Key/Value Storage -- Big Data Storage -- Server Storage Versus Network Storage -- Technology Changing the Picture -- Bandwidth and Scale -- File Systems for Big Data -- References -- ch. 9 High-Performance Computing -- Major Scientific Experiments -- Big Simulations -- Surveillance Systems -- The Trading Floor -- High-Performance Computing Clouds -- Video Editing -- Oil and Gas -- Latency Is KING! -- Converging Remote Direct Memory Access -- References. |
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Ch. 10 The Cloud -- What Is the Cloud? -- Cloud Hardware -- The Future of Cloud Hardware -- Cloud Software -- OpenStack Software -- AWS -- Microsoft Azure -- Google -- VMware -- The Rest -- The Changing Datacenter Density, Cooling, and Power -- Using Cloud Storage -- Hybrid Clouds -- Evolving Clouds -- Hardware of the Cloud Over the Next Decade -- Software of the Cloud Over the Next Decade -- Networking for Cloud Storage -- Backup and Archiving -- Hybrid Clouds and Data Governance -- Containers and Their Impact on Storage Networks -- Will the Private Datacenter Survive? -- References -- ch. 11 Data Integrity -- RAID and Its Problems -- How RAID Works? -- RAID Myths -- Replication -- Erasure Coding -- Disaster Protection in the Cloud -- References -- ch. 12 Data Security -- Losing Your Data -- Data at Rest -- Data in Transit -- Cold Data -- Protecting Cloud Data -- Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) -- Hybrid Clouds and Data Governance. |
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The Modern Governance Approach -- Encryption -- Important Encryption Schemes -- Command and Status Messages -- Standard File Formats -- Key Management -- Information Rights Management -- References -- ch. 13 On the Horizon -- Solid-State Replaces Spinning Rust -- The Impact on Appliance Design -- Collateral Considerations -- NVDIMMs: Changing the Balance of Storage -- The Hybrid Memory Cube -- Virtual SANs -- Internet of Things -- Retail and IoT -- The Other Big Data -- References -- ch. 14 Just Over the Horizon -- NAND Killers -- Phase-Change Memory -- Resistive RAM -- Spintronics MRAM -- Graphene -- Further Out -- References. |
| Summary |
Network Storage: Tools and Technologies for Storing Your Company's Data explains the changes occurring in storage, what they mean, and how to negotiate the minefields of conflicting technologies that litter the storage arena, all in an effort to help IT managers create a solid foundation for coming decades. The book begins with an overview of the current state of storage and its evolution from the network perspective, looking closely at the different protocols and connection schemes and how they differentiate in use case and operational behavior. The book explores the software changes that are motivating this evolution, ranging from data management, to in-stream processing and storage in virtual systems, and changes in the decades-old OS stack. It explores Software-Defined Storage as a way to construct storage networks, the impact of Big Data, high-performance computing, and the cloud on storage networking. As networks and data integrity are intertwined, the book looks at how data is split up and moved to the various appliances holding that dataset and its impact. Because data security is often neglected, users will find a comprehensive discussion on security issues that offers remedies that can be applied. The book concludes with a look at technologies on the horizon that will impact storage and its networks, such as NVDIMMs, The Hybrid Memory Cube, VSANs, and NAND Killers. |
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Computer storage devices.
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Storage area networks (Computer networks)
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Computer Storage Devices |
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Ordinateurs -- Mémoires. |
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Réseaux de stockage (Informatique) |
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Computer storage devices |
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Storage area networks (Computer networks) |
| Other Form: |
Print version: O'Reilly, James. Network storage : tools and technologies for storing your company's data. Amsterdam, [Netherlands] : Morgan Kaufmann, ©2017 xiii, 265 pages 9780128038635 |
| ISBN |
9780128038659 |
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0128038659 |
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0128038632 |
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9780128038635 |
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