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Wednesday January 19, 9:11 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
Osborne/McGraw-Hill Releases the Network Administrator's Guide To SANs, NAS, and Network Storage
BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 19, 2000--Storage networking has emerged as a major new technology as networking professionals consider the best ways to improve the reliability and accessibility of corporate and Internet data.
Until now, there has not been any single resource that encompasses the entire spectrum of this expanding field. Now Osborne McGraw-Hill announces the publication of Building Storage Networks, a comprehensive analysis to help in designing and implementing SANs, NAS, RAID, backup and many other storage network technologies. The book includes a foreword by John McArthur, Director of Worldwide Storage Research at IDC.
Analysts currently estimate network storage as a $13 billion-dollar industry, a figure that is expected to triple by 2001. This year's I/O Technologies Forum in Monterey, Calif. on Jan. 17-20 includes such industry luminaries as Compaq, Intel, Cisco, Sun, Microsoft, IBM and a long list of other companies that have been developing and establishing storage networking technologies and products.
``Businesses simply have to find ways to deal with their exploding storage problems,' according to Michael Peterson, President of Strategic Research and developer of the I/O Technologies Forum, ``there is a tremendous learning curve that needs to be tackled. Building Storage Networks should be on the top of everybody's reading list.'
Endorsed by SNIA, the Storage Networking Industry Association, Building Storage Networks illustrates how the broad range of network storage technologies operate in the real world and includes network blueprints visually demonstrating storage concepts and topologies.
Author Marc Farley, an authority on storage networks, gives readers a thorough analysis with ample illustrations to make this difficult subject easy to understand. According to Farley, ``The intent from the beginning was to write a comprehensive book that networking professionals will use for jump-starting their own storage networks and avoiding costly mistakes.'
Farley will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming Storage Networking World Spring 2000 event, presented by Computerworld and SNIA in Palm Desert, Calif. on April 17-19.
``Storage networking is at the center of the current eBusiness boom which is why it is so important for our readers. In addition to the coverage that our editors give to this important segment, Computerworld co-sponsors Storage Networking World with Storage Networking Industry Alliance,' said Ronald Milton, vice president and general manager, Computerworld Enterprise Business Solutions.
``It was a natural for us endorse and support Building Storage Networks.'
About the Author
Marc Farley (San Jose, Calif.) started working with network storage technology in 1991 at Palindrome Corporation as a systems engineer and has been in the network storage ever since working in business development, product management and strategic marketing roles at Hitachi, Crossroads Systems, ConvergeNet.
He is currently the Vice President of Marketing at SanCastle Technologies, a company designing and building Gigabit networking switching fabrics. Farley is the author of numerous white papers and magazine articles on storage I/O technology.
He was a contributing author to the Handbook of Networking and Connectivity published in 1994 by Academic Press and was the lead author of The LAN Times Guide to Security and Data Integrity published by Osborne McGraw-Hill in 1996.
About the Publisher
The Osborne Media Group, headquartered in Berkeley, is a leading publisher of self-paced computer training materials that include user and reference guides; best-selling series on computer certification; high level but practical titles on networking, communication, and programming; and the hottest titles on new web development tools.
With its established strategic publishing relationships with Oracle, Corel, Global Knowledge, J.D. Edwards, and Intuit, The Osborne Media Group is targeting consumer support, emerging technologies, and innovative applications for developing future computer books.
Founded in 1888, The McGraw-Hill Companies is a leading information services provider meeting worldwide needs in education, business, finance, the professions and government. The corporation employs 16,500 people located in more than 400 offices in 32 countries. Sales in 1998 were $3.7 billion. For more information visit osborne.com.
BUILDING STORAGE NETWORKS by Marc Farley Pages: 656 pp Price: $44.99 Publication Date: January, 1999 ISBN: 0-07-212050-9 An Osborne/McGraw-Hill Book
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