Sunday, December 6, 2009

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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    Go to: Outsourcing Security or The Case of Abraham Lincoln

    Real World Digital Video with DVD

    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. 1All You Can Achieve with Digital Video1
    Ch. 2Yes, You Need a Script29
    Ch. 3DV Technology and the Camcorder47
    Ch. 4Using Your Camcorder Like a Pro75
    Ch. 5Shots and Shot Plans105
    Ch. 6Lighting for DV135
    Ch. 7Sound on the Set181
    Ch. 8Preproduction211
    Ch. 9On the Set255
    Ch. 10In the Cutting Room289
    Ch. 11Polishing Sound and Images319
    Ch. 12Distribution and E-Publishing355
    Ch. 13Coming Attractions399
    App. ADigital Video Technology in Depth403
    App. BSelecting and Building an NLE System421
    Glossary443
    References and Web Links479
    Index489

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