Research and Markets: Information Storage and Management : Storing, Managing, and Protecting Digital Information

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/77b96d/information_storag) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new report "Information Storage and Management : Storing, Managing, and Protecting Digital Information" to their offering.

The spiraling growth of digital information makes the ISM book a "must have" addition to your IT reference library. This exponential growth has driven information management technology to new levels of sophistication and complexity, exposing a skills gap that challenge IT managers and professionals alike. The ISM book, written by storage professionals from EMC Corporation, takes an 'open' approach to teaching information storage and management, focusing on concepts and principles - rather that product specifics - that can be applied in all IT environments The book enables existing and aspiring IT professionals, students, faculty, and those simply wishing to gain deeper insight to this emerging pillar of IT infrastructure to achieve a comprehensive understanding of all segments of information storage technology.

Sixteen chapters are organized into four sections. Advanced topics build upon the topics learned in previous chapters.

Section 1, "Information Storage and Management for Today's World": Four chapters cover information growth and challenges, define a storage system and its environment, review the evolution of storage technology, and introduce intelligent storage systems.

Section 2, "Storage Options and Protocols": Six chapters cover the SCSI and Fibre channel architecture, direct-attached storage (DAS), storage area networks (SANs), network-attached storage (NAS), Internet Protocol SAN (IP-SAN), content-addressed storage (CAS), and storage virtualization.

Section 3, "Business Continuity and Replication": Four chapters introduce business continuity, backup and recovery, local data replication, and remote data replication.

Section 4, "Security and Administration": Two chapters cover storage security and storage infrastructure monitoring and management.

The book's supplementary web site provides up-to-date information on additional learning aids and storage certification opportunities.

Key Topics Covered:

Foreword

Introduction

Section I Storage System

Chapter 1 Introduction to Information Storage and Management

Chapter 2 Storage System Environment

Chapter 3 Data Protection: RAID

Chapter 4 Intelligent Storage System

Section II Storage Networking Technologies and Virtualization

Chapter 5 Direct-Attached Storage and Introduction to SCSI

Chapter 6 Storage Area Networks

Chapter 7 Network-Attached Storage

Chapter 8 IP SAN

Chapter 9 Content-Addressed Storage

Chapter 10 Storage Virtualization

Section III Business Continuity

Chapter 11 Introduction to Business Continuity

Chapter 12 Backup and Recovery

Chapter 13 Local Replication

Chapter 14 Remote Replication

Section IV Storage Security and Management

Chapter 15 Securing the Storage Infrastructure

Chapter 16 Managing the Storage Infrastructure

Summary

Appendix

Glossary

Index

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