Product Description
If you’ve been charged with setting up storage area networks for your company, learning how SANs work and managing data storage problems might seem challenging. Storage Area Networks For Dummies, 2nd Edition comes to the rescue with just what you need to know. Whether you already a bit SAN savvy or you’re a complete novice, here’s the scoop on how SANs save money, how to implement new technologies like data de-duplication, iScsi, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet, how to develop SANs that will aid your company’s disaster recovery plan, and much more. For example, you can: Understand what SANs are, whether you need one, and what you need to build one Learn to use loops, switches, and fabric, and design your SAN for peak performance Create a disaster recovery plan with the appropriate guidelines, remote site, and data copy techniques Discover how to connect or extend SANs and how compression can reduce costs Compare tape and disk backups and network vs. SAN backup to choose the solution you need Find out how data de-duplication makes sense for backup, replication, and retention Follow great troubleshooting tips to help you find and fix a problem Benefit from a glossary of all those pesky acronyms From the basics for beginners to advanced features like snapshot copies, storage virtualization, and heading off problems before they happen, here’s what you need to do the job with confidence!

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 19 reviews)

Fantastic primer for people new to storage by Henry Kennedy (San Francisco, CA USA)

5 Stars
October 21, 2009
While working at a large SF Bay Area IT company as a marketing manager, I was transferred from the microprocessor division to the storage department. "Storage Area Networks for Dummies" was a wonderful resource for getting up to speed with the technologies and terminology of my new world. Over the last 5 years I have recommened it time and time again to marketing managers new to storage. If you can grasp the concepts in the first 2 chapters, you will learn enough to follow the industry. And the rest of the book is a wonderful reference for non-techies.

Excellent introduction to SAN technology by R. A. Coco (georgetown, MA)

5 Stars
September 09, 2009
do not be put off by the "Dummies" thing...this is an excellent and comprehensive introduction to SAN technology.

Buy the 2nd Edition if you see Dummies man on the cover by Kyle Looper (Indianapolis, IN)

5 Stars
January 27, 2009
The second edition of Storage Area Networks For Dummies by the same authors is available. That edition has a computer photo on the cover rather than Dummies man. The ISBN for the second edition is 0470385138. You can search on that ISBN to find the most up-to-date information on SANs, including iSCSI, data de-duplication, and storage virtualization solutions.

Nice summary book by Jose A. Bittar

4 Stars
October 03, 2008
I was assigned the task by my company to install a SAN without ever having seen one. This book was very valuable in preparing me to get the job done. It's well organized with none of the usual excesses of the usual 800 page computer book. It makes for an excellent introductory book.

Incredibly difficult subject to conquer, but Dummies makes it entertaining by J. Dewath (LA)

4 Stars
January 12, 2008
Good overview of subject, would have like the option to go more into the details of switches. Should be updated too. Easy read, entertaining writers. A true must read for anyone even related to the SANS industry.

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