Free ebook: Rethinking Enterprise Storage: A Hybrid Cloud Model
We’re pleased to announce the availability of Rethinking Enterprise Storage: A Hybrid Cloud Model (ISBN 9780735679603), by Marc Farley, as a free download! You can download the PDF version of this title here (120 pages; 3 MB).
We will update this post soon with links to EPUB and MOBI files. We expect these files to be available by the end of the month. UPDATE: The EPUB format is here and the MOBI format is here.
Rethinking Enterprise Storage: A Hybrid Cloud Model describes a storage architecture that some experts are calling a game changer in the infrastructure industry. Called the Microsoft hybrid cloud storage (HCS) solution, it was developed as a way to integrate cloud storage services with traditional enterprise storage.
The author, Marc Farley, works at Microsoft on hybrid cloud storage solutions as a senior marketing manager. The book includes a Foreword by storage industry expert and noted blogger Martin Glassborow, better known in the industry as Storagebod.
The book includes seven chapters:
Chapter 1 Rethinking enterprise storage
Chapter 2 Leapfrogging backup with cloud snapshots
Chapter 3 Accelerating and broadening disaster recovery protection
Chapter 4 Taming the capacity monster
Chapter 5 Archiving data with the hybrid cloud
Chapter 6 Putting all the pieces together
Chapter 7 Imagining the possibilities with hybrid cloud storage
To give you a taste of what’s to come, here’s an excerpt from the book’s Introduction:
Introduction (excerpt)
Just as the Internet has fundamentally changed many industries, cloud computing is fundamentally changing the information technology industry, including infrastructures such as enterprise data storage. This book is about one of the new infrastructure game changers—a storage architecture called hybrid cloud storage that was developed by a company called StorSimple, now a part of Microsoft, as a way to integrate cloud storage services with traditional enterprise storage. Hybrid cloud storage is a completely different approach to storing data with a single comprehensive management system covering data through its entire life cycle, including active and inactive states as well as backup and archive versions. IT teams with cloud-integrated storage arrays running in their data centers use cloud storage as a data management tool and not simply as additional storage capacity that needs to be managed. That concept takes a little time to fully understand and it’s why this book was written.
The audience for this book includes all levels of IT professionals, from executives responsible for determining IT strategies to systems administrators who manage systems and storage. The book explains how hybrid cloud storage changes the ways data protection is accomplished without tape backup systems; how disaster recovery works with data that is stored in the cloud; how cloud services are used to facilitate capacity management; and how the performance of data stored in the cloud is managed. Several applications for hybrid cloud storage are discussed to help IT professionals determine how they can use the Microsoft hybrid cloud storage (HCS) solution to solve their own storage problems. The last chapter is a hypothetical look into the future that speculates how this technology might evolve.
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Anonymous
October 29, 2013
ThanksAnonymous
January 17, 2014
Y en español desde donde se pueden bajar en pdf. saludosAnonymous
May 06, 2014
This is education. Thank you.Anonymous
July 09, 2014
There is written: Unlike an iSCSI network, where it is easy to segregate SAN and LAN traffic with subnets or VLANs, the connection to the Internet is almost always shared with other Internet traffic at the site. The minimal dedicated bandwidth recommendation for the Internet link between the CiS system and Windows Azure Storage is 20 Mb/second. The Microsoft HCS solution could be used for application/data migrations someday. Here’s a quick overview of how it might work: After pausing the application, the IT team would take a cloud snapshot, which would upload the most recently written data and the most recent metadata map.Anonymous
January 30, 2015
A must read for every professional who is working in or with datacenters on a weekly basis!Anonymous
February 11, 2015
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February 19, 2015
> that some experts are calling a game changer in the infrastructure industry Who are these experts? who considers them to be experts? How many is "some" and out of what prospective pool of experts? Who do the experts work for?Anonymous
November 25, 2015
We have 10 storsimple, but we would like to know if is it possible to use one like local storage?Anonymous
March 09, 2016
ThanksAnonymous
May 10, 2016
thanks!Anonymous
May 24, 2016
who considers them to be experts? How many is "some" and out of what prospective pool of experts? Who do the experts work for?Anonymous
May 26, 2016
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December 06, 2016
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January 16, 2017
Thank you~!Anonymous
February 23, 2017
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May 06, 2017
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