Designing Storage Area Networks or Real World Digital Video with DVD

Designing Storage Area Networks: A Practical Reference for Implementing Fibre Channel and IP SANs, Second Edition

Author: Tom Clark

Designing Storage Area Networks, Second Edition, succinctly captures the key technologies that are driving the storage networking industry. Tom Clark's works are helping to educate the IT community to the benefits and challenges of shared storage and are recommended reading for anyone wishing to understand this exciting new technology."

—Sheila Childs, VP Product Management, Legato Systems Chairperson, SNIA

Fibre Channel SANs have become a mainstay at the backend of the biggest corporations on the planet. The second edition of Designing Storage Area Networks brings the next wave of connection (IP) points and management into context, helping the user to quickly understand all the benefits before them."

—Steve Duplessie, Founder and Senior Analyst, Enterprise Storage Group

Designing Storage Area Networks, Second Edition, provides a practical roadmap through the ever-changing landscape of SAN technology. The new Fibre Channel, IP, and virtualization initiatives covered in this work will enable customers to implement comprehensive shared storage solutions that reduce management overhead and cost."

—John Webster, Founder and SeniorAnalyst, Data Mobility Group

Storage Area Networks (SANs) are now recognized as the preferred solution for fulfilling institutions' and enterprises' critical data-storage needs. Whether powered by Fibre Channel or TCP/IP and Gigabit Ethernet technology, SANs far exceed the capabilities of traditional storage access methods. SANs are quickly becoming the solution of choice for organizations that require high-volume data-handling capacity.

Written for networkdevelopers, IT consultants, administrators, and managers, this updated and greatly expanded edition of the best-selling Designing Storage Area Networks goes far beyond a straight description of technical specifications and standards. The text offers practical guidelines for using diverse SAN technologies to solve existing networking problems in large-scale corporate networks. With this book you will learn how the technologies work and how to organize their components into an effective, scalable design. In doing so, you will discover today's best methods for managing storage area networks, including new troubleshooting techniques.

Designing Storage Area Networks, Second Edition, also features detailed case studies that demonstrate how SANs can solve a number of commonly encountered business challenges, including LAN-free and server-free tape backup, server clustering, and disaster recovery. As an information-systems professional, you must keep pace with this powerful, evolving technology.

Key topic coverage includes:

Using the SNIA Shared Storage Model

Fibre Channel layers and protocols

Fabrics and fabric switches

Host bus adapters

Fibre Channel RAID and Fibre Channel JBODs

iSCSI and IP storage protocols and products

SAN management and problem isolation techniques

Building extended SANs for data center and remote storage access

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Author: Gerald Jones

Now, virtually anyone with a vision can also have a voice. The formerly formidable barriers to producing highly professional video projects are crumbling as high-quality camcorders and nonlinear editing software become increasingly affordable. And this powerful creative medium is finding its way into the hands of all kinds of people -- company training directors, aspiring moviemakers, independent news hawks, product promotion specialists, documentarians, even home-movie Andy Warhols. What story do you want to tell?

Table of Contents:

	Introduction
Ch. 1	All You Can Achieve with Digital Video	1
Ch. 2	Yes, You Need a Script	29
Ch. 3	DV Technology and the Camcorder	47
Ch. 4	Using Your Camcorder Like a Pro	75
Ch. 5	Shots and Shot Plans	105
Ch. 6	Lighting for DV	135
Ch. 7	Sound on the Set	181
Ch. 8	Preproduction	211
Ch. 9	On the Set	255
Ch. 10	In the Cutting Room	289
Ch. 11	Polishing Sound and Images	319
Ch. 12	Distribution and E-Publishing	355
Ch. 13	Coming Attractions	399
App. A	Digital Video Technology in Depth	403
App. B	Selecting and Building an NLE System	421
	Glossary	443
	References and Web Links	479
	Index	489