Information Storage and Management: Storing, Managing, and Protecting Digital Information (Hardcover)

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.

數位資訊的快速增長使得ISM書籍成為您IT參考圖書館中「必備」的一部分。這種指數級增長推動了資訊管理技術達到了新的複雜程度和精細度，揭示了IT經理和專業人士面臨的技能差距。由EMC Corporation的儲存專業人士撰寫的ISM書籍採用了一種「開放」的教學方法，專注於概念和原則，而不是產品細節，這些概念和原則可以應用於所有的IT環境中。

該書籍使現有和有抱負的IT專業人員、學生、教職員以及那些希望深入了解這一新興IT基礎設施支柱的人們能夠全面了解信息存儲技術的各個方面。

書籍分為四個部分，共十六章。高級主題建立在前面章節所學的基礎上。

第一部分「今日世界的信息存儲和管理」：四章介紹了信息增長和挑戰，定義了存儲系統及其環境，回顧了存儲技術的演變，並介紹了智能存儲系統。

第二部分「存儲選項和協議」：六章介紹了SCSI和光纖通道架構，直接連接存儲（DAS），存儲區域網絡（SAN），網絡附加存儲（NAS），網際網路協議存儲區域網絡（IP-SAN），內容導向存儲（CAS）和存儲虛擬化。

第三部分「業務連續性和複製」：四章介紹了業務連續性，備份和恢復，本地數據複製和遠程數據複製。

第四部分「安全和管理」：兩章介紹了存儲安全和存儲基礎設施監控和管理。

該書的附加網站提供最新的學習輔助資料和存儲認證機會的信息。