ISBN: 9798174420540 - the complete guide to data center storage (6 resultados)

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Computing creates value only when data can be stored, protected, moved, and delivered when it is needed.Behind every cloud application, database, streaming platform, financial transaction, scientific workload, and artificial intelligence model is an enormous storage infrastructure responsible for preserving and supplying the world's digital information.The Complete Guide to Data Center Storage provides a comprehensive exploration of the hardware, architectures, technologies, and operational principles behind modern data storage-from individual hard drives and solid-state devices to enterprise storage arrays, storage networks, distributed systems, hyperscale platforms, and the high-performance infrastructure feeding today's massive AI clusters.Rather than treating storage as simply a collection of disks, this book explains storage as an interconnected system involving media, controllers, servers, networks, software, redundancy, performance, data protection, and physical data center infrastructure.Begin with the Fundamentals of Data StorageWhat actually happens when a computer saves information?The book begins with the foundations needed to understand how digital information moves from an application into persistent storage and eventually returns when requested.Readers explore: Bits, bytes, blocks, and filesStorage capacityInput/output operationsSequential and random accessReads and writesLatencyThroughputIOPSQueue depthCachingControllersInterfaces and protocolsLocal versus networked storagePersistent versus volatile memoryThese concepts establish the vocabulary needed to understand everything from a single SSD to enormous distributed storage systems.HDDs, SSDs, and Modern Storage MediaStorage technology has undergone an extraordinary transformation.Readers examine the architecture and operating principles of hard disk drives, solid-state drives, NAND flash, enterprise SSDs, and modern high-performance storage devices.The book explains why different media have different characteristics involving capacity, speed, latency, endurance, reliability, power consumption, and cost.Rather than asking which storage technology is simply "best," readers learn why data center architects select different technologies for different workloads.Understanding NVMeNVMe has become increasingly important to high-performance data center storage.The book explores NVMe devices, PCIe connectivity, queues, parallelism, latency, throughput, and the architectural advantages of storage designed specifically for modern solid-state media.Readers learn how NVMe differs from older storage interfaces and why reducing the delays between processors and data becomes increasingly important as computing systems become faster.The discussion expands into concepts surrounding NVMe over Fabrics and networked high-performance storage, connecting local storage technology with larger data center architectures.RAID, Redundancy, and Data ProtectionStorage devices eventually fail.Reliable storage systems therefore require methods for protecting information when hardware stops working.Readers explore RAID concepts, mirroring, striping, parity, redundancy, hot spares, rebuilds, fault domains, replication, erasure coding, and high availability.The book explains an important distinction: This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Computing creates value only when data can be stored, protected, moved, and delivered when it is needed.Behind every cloud application, database, streaming platform, financial transaction, scientific workload, and artificial intelligence model is an enormous storage infrastructure responsible for preserving and supplying the world's digital information.The Complete Guide to Data Center Storage provides a comprehensive exploration of the hardware, architectures, technologies, and operational principles behind modern data storage-from individual hard drives and solid-state devices to enterprise storage arrays, storage networks, distributed systems, hyperscale platforms, and the high-performance infrastructure feeding today's massive AI clusters.Rather than treating storage as simply a collection of disks, this book explains storage as an interconnected system involving media, controllers, servers, networks, software, redundancy, performance, data protection, and physical data center infrastructure.Begin with the Fundamentals of Data StorageWhat actually happens when a computer saves information?The book begins with the foundations needed to understand how digital information moves from an application into persistent storage and eventually returns when requested.Readers explore: Bits, bytes, blocks, and filesStorage capacityInput/output operationsSequential and random accessReads and writesLatencyThroughputIOPSQueue depthCachingControllersInterfaces and protocolsLocal versus networked storagePersistent versus volatile memoryThese concepts establish the vocabulary needed to understand everything from a single SSD to enormous distributed storage systems.HDDs, SSDs, and Modern Storage MediaStorage technology has undergone an extraordinary transformation.Readers examine the architecture and operating principles of hard disk drives, solid-state drives, NAND flash, enterprise SSDs, and modern high-performance storage devices.The book explains why different media have different characteristics involving capacity, speed, latency, endurance, reliability, power consumption, and cost.Rather than asking which storage technology is simply "best," readers learn why data center architects select different technologies for different workloads.Understanding NVMeNVMe has become increasingly important to high-performance data center storage.The book explores NVMe devices, PCIe connectivity, queues, parallelism, latency, throughput, and the architectural advantages of storage designed specifically for modern solid-state media.Readers learn how NVMe differs from older storage interfaces and why reducing the delays between processors and data becomes increasingly important as computing systems become faster.The discussion expands into concepts surrounding NVMe over Fabrics and networked high-performance storage, connecting local storage technology with larger data center architectures.RAID, Redundancy, and Data ProtectionStorage devices eventually fail.Reliable storage systems therefore require methods for protecting information when hardware stops working.Readers explore RAID concepts, mirroring, striping, parity, redundancy, hot spares, rebuilds, fault domains, replication, erasure coding, and high availability.The book explains an important distinction: This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…