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  Designing storage area networks: a practical reference for implementing storage area networks
Clark T., Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co, Inc., Boston, MA, 2003. 592 pp.  Type: Book (9780321136503), Reviews: (2 of 2)

This book is planned to guide the reader through the steps for understanding and possibly implementing storage network infrastructures and applications....

Jul 16 2003
  Designing storage area networks: a practical reference for implementing storage area networks
Clark T., Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co, Inc., Boston, MA, 2003. 592 pp.  Type: Book (9780321136503), Reviews: (1 of 2)

A survey is presented in this book of the technology and architecture of fiber channel and Internet protocol (IP) storage area networks (SANs). The book is oriented toward readers who want to understand what the technical underpinnings...

Jul 2 2003
  The CD-ROM and optical disc recording systems
Williams E., Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 1996.  Type: Book (9780198593904)

Williams provides a good introduction to optical recording and storage systems, especially CD-ROM. This book can be used as a text for first-year graduate or senior undergraduate courses for science or engineering students. Optical sto...

Nov 1 1997
  Digital magnetic recording (2nd ed.)
Hoagland A., Monson J., Wiley-Interscience, New York, NY, 1991.  Type: Book (9780471401445)

In today’s most widely used means of providing long-term storage of digital data, bits are represented by longitudinally magnetized regions in a thin medium of ferrous oxide or comparable material. A write head, consisting of...

Oct 1 1992
  Mass storage technologies
Ranade S. (ed), Meckler Corporation, Westport, CT, 1991.  Type: Book (9780887365706)

As stated in the foreword, this book’s objective is to present “for the first time in one place, a survey of the existing state-of-the-art of mass storage systems.” It covers many topics related to the des...

Aug 1 1992
  Optical disks vs. magnetic storage
Saffady W., Meckler Corporation, Westport, CT, 1990.  Type: Book (9780887367038)

This well-written report takes a reader through

  • how magnetic tape, magnetic disk (fixed and removable, hard and floppy), and optical disk (write-once and erasable) drives work, in depth and in detail yet accessibly to the no...
Feb 1 1992
  Optical Computing & Processing (v.1 n.1)
Hall T.  Optical Computing & Processing 11:1991.  Type: Journal

The stated purpose of this new journal is “to promote…the increasing application of optoelectronic technology to information processing systems.” This well-produced first issue contains eight papers that c...

Nov 1 1991
  The handbook of optical memory systems: feasibility, design, implementation
Waegemann C., Optical Disk Institute, Newtonville, MA, 1990.  Type: Book (9789780962181511)

This comprehensive overview describes all optical memory systems, but emphasizes WORM (write once read many) technology because it offers non-erasable and updatable recording. Written in a direct, informative style, this loose-leaf han...

Jun 1 1991
  Performance Analysis of Mass Storage Service Alternatives for Distributed Systems
Ramakrishnan K., Emer J. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 15(2): 120-133, 1989.  Type: Article

The authors set out to examine a problem common in local area networks (LANs): providing rapid access to mass storage. I was quite confused about their goals, methodology, and accomplishments, though, and I found their terminology espe...

Oct 1 1989
  An example of microprocessor’s application in minicomputer systems: a copy volume design and implementation
Brusamolino M., Reina L., Spalla M. Microprocessing and Microprogramming 13(5): 331-339, 1984.  Type: Article

Providing ad-hoc processing power for the management of the backing store is a well-known technique for increasing parallelism [1]. A further advantage is the modularized decomposition of functionalities, which ensures [2]. This may pr...

Sep 1 1985
 
 
 
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