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The Business Case for Storage Networks (Network Business)

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Essential knowledge for the managers
Presents the Business Case, Not the Technical.

The Business Case for Storage Networks (Network Business)
Bill Williams
Manufacturer: Cisco Press
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ASIN: 1587201186

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Understand the business case for storage networks and lower your total cost of ownership with this comprehensive guide

Introduces the benefits of storage networks, providing a comprehensive business case for the adoption and deployment of storage networking solutions
Provides a complete overview of the TCO methodology for storage networks
Summarizes the EVA, NPV, and ROI metrics used to evaluate projects, ensuring their financial success
Outlines the best practices for executing a storage migration strategy
Includes a TCO calculator and decision-making checklist that you can use to assess your decision

When adopting a storage networking solution, you need to understand the business case for your decision. Yet this process is fraught with many business and technical considerations. How will the adoption of a storage networking solution affect your current infrastructure? How will your IT team grapple with the addition of a new technology? How can you turn the cost of your storage network into a business benefit, strengthening your bottom line and paving the way for future success?

Storage networking technologies promise a high return on investment (ROI) and have the potential to reduce the cost of corporate IT functions, which can result in significant savings. The increased efficiency associated with networked storage also promises a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) for storage, and a lower, fully burdened cost of storage means greater long-term savings for large and small corporate datacenter environments. SAN technologies also offer increased business continuance capabilities for increased uptime and availability.

The Business Case for Storage Networks covers the problem of direct-attached storage (DAS) and the solutions offered by storage area networks. It details the experiences of IT decision makers and implementers who have deployed SAN solutions to address the formidable problems facing their companies, which are now overwhelmed with expensive, inefficient, and difficult-to-manage DAS solutions. The Business Case for Storage Networks addresses the problems of storage growth and increased consumption, the role of the IT department as a cost center, and how SAN technologies can help save money in the long run, helping you make an informed decision about your storage networking investment.

This volume is in the Network Business Series offered by Cisco Press. Books in this series provide IT executives, decision makers, and networking professionals with pertinent information on today's most important technologies and business strategies.

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Essential knowledge for the managers.......2005-05-26

One of the greatest weaknesses of American business is that managers are often limited in their technical knowledge and the technical people limited in their business knowledge. Therefore, the lack of a common frame of reference means that the two groups often do not understand each other. Furthermore both groups are often not very good at educating each other. This means that it is critical for there to be business materials that can be understood by technical people and technical material that can be understood by business people.
This book is written for managers and presents the case for incorporating storage networks into your business. Most of the terminology is within the standard vocabulary of business. Part I: "The Storage Networking Value Proposition" starts with the advantages of using storage networks, the impact of storage networking, using financial metrics to justify the allocation of resources, implementation strategies and how to maximize the value of your investment in storage networks. Part II deals with five case studies:

*) The Cancer Therapy and Research Center.
*) Internet Service Provider.
*) Cisco Systems Inc.
*) Retail Grocer.
*) Financial services.

Each starts with the initial conditions, current problems, TCO numbers, the consequences of the move to storage networks, and future plans for expansion. They are well presented, giving examples of how such migrations work and how they can fail.
I strongly recommend this book for managers who have a need for reliably storing large amounts of data, which is just about everyone. Standard business practice means that it is necessary, but the recent imposition of new regulations means that the consequences are no longer limited to business failure. If you fail to store data now, the legal consequences can be considerable.

Presents the Business Case, Not the Technical........2004-11-03

Computer Architecture, Computer Architecture - General, Although Cisco is well noted for the technical depth of most of their books, this is not really a technical book. Instead it is aimed at the buisness manager who is thinking of installing a Storage Area Networks (SAN). It covers how to calculate such things as the total cost of ownership, the effect on your current infrastructure and how the present IT staff will cope with the new equipment, the new technology.

The book is not completely untechnical. It includes a complete overview of the concepts which include the interconnection systems, the topology, backup and replication, etc. But these subjects are covered at the business manager level, not the level of the technicians responsible for the actual installation of the system.

All in all, the clearest business oriented book on the subject I've seen.

Web Visions: An Inside Look at Successful Business Strategies on the Net

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Web Visions: An Inside Look at Successful Business Strategies on the Net
Eugene Marlow , and Eugene, Phd Marlow
Manufacturer: Van Nostrand Reinhold
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Web Visions Eugene Marlow What Really Works on the Internet? Find out in Web Visions, where the people who built toda's most successful business sites talk about:

Web Visions helps you make sense of the big-picture changes wrought by the Web, while giving you in-depth interviews that take you behind the scenes to learn little-known details about:

Advance Praise for Web Visions: An Inside Look at Successful Business Strategies on the Net "Web Visions cuts through the hype and delivers the truth about marketing on the Web. This book should be required reading for making money with the Internet." —Bill Townsend, Vice President of Advertising, Lycos, Inc. "The depth of coverage is very impressive." —Michael D. Donahue, Senior Vice President, Member Services, American Association of Advertising Agencies "Marlow's insights will make this book a cornerstone of Internet marketing theory." —Edward R. Padin, Vice President, Marketing, SRDS "Finally, a straightforward book about the Internet and Intranet with real statistics and solid case studies." —John J. Sarsen, Jr., President and CEO, Association of National Advertisers

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Interview Data Dump.......1997-04-18

Mr. Marlow's book starts out OK; the first few chapters are informative and interesting. General Internet usage statistics are provided, along with some pearls of general Internet wisdom. However, the content of the book does not measure up to titles of the various chapters (the chapter titles suggest interesting and useful information to those embarking setting up a web site, the opposite is true). The book is basically a data dumb of interviews conducted over the last 3 years. There is very little summarization or structure to the presented material. Furthermore, and most importantly, there are no conclusions drawn about who did what right, what works, and what new netizens should do when constructing their own site. Lastly, the book's data dump format makes it very difficult to extract any valuable information. I found myself only skimming the last half of the book because of it's weak and redundant content. One caveat, I am intimately familiar with the online world, so maybe a novice would find the book useful

Smart storage: Texas cancer center ensures continuous treatment by using emerging storage networking technology. (Data storage: case history).: An article from: Health Management Technology

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Smart storage: Texas cancer center ensures continuous treatment by using emerging storage networking technology. (Data storage: case history).: An article from: Health Management Technology

Manufacturer: Nelson Publishing
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Health Management Technology, published by Nelson Publishing on May 1, 2003. The length of the article is 1618 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Smart storage: Texas cancer center ensures continuous treatment by using emerging storage networking technology. (Data storage: case history).
Publication: Health Management Technology (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2003
Publisher: Nelson Publishing
Volume: 24 Issue: 5 Page: 20(3)

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Firm manages SAN changes.(storage area networks) : An article from: Communications News

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Firm manages SAN changes.(storage area networks) : An article from: Communications News
Tom Dever
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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ASIN: B000ETQUFG
Release Date: 2006-03-02

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This digital document is an article from Communications News, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2005. The length of the article is 700 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Firm manages SAN changes.(storage area networks)
Author: Tom Dever
Publication: Communications News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2005
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Volume: 42 Issue: 5 Page: 20(1)

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A case study of marketing on the internet

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A case study of marketing on the internet
Katherine Brancart Mendez
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