The Business Case for Storage Networks (Paperback)
暫譯: 儲存網路的商業案例 (平裝本)

Bill Williams

The Business Case for Storage Networks (Paperback)
  • 出版商: Cisco Press
  • 出版日期: 2004-10-29
  • 定價: $1,200
  • 售價: 5.0 折 $600
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 264
  • 裝訂: Paperback
  • ISBN: 1587201186
  • ISBN-13: 9781587201189

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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.

 

Table of Contents:

I. THE STORAGE NETWORKING VALUE PROPOSITION.

1. Industry Landscape: Storage Costs and Consumption.

    Storage Management Matters.

    Implementing a Storage Vision.

    Irrational Exuberance.

    Macro Sources of Economic Downturn.

    Commoditization of Hardware.

    The Disk as Commodity.

    The Server as Commodity.

    The Impact of Competition on IT.

    The Impact of Legislation on IT.

    Regulation Fair Disclosure.

    Sarbanes-Oxley.

    Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.

    Title 21.

    Securities and Exchange Commission.

    Utilization and Yield.

    The Cost of Poor Quality and the Storage Problem.

    Storage Yield.

    Obstacles Inherent in DAS.

    Utilization.

    Conclusion.

    Summary.

     End Notes.

2. The Business Impact of Storage Networking Technology.

    Tangible and Intangible Benefits of Storage Networking.

    Technology Solutions Associated with Storage Networking.

    Increased Availability.

    Backup and Recovery Options.

    LAN-Free Backups.

    Server-Free Backups.

    Replication.

    Asynchronous Replication.

    Synchronous Replication.

    SAN Extensions.

    Optical Networking.

    Fibre Channel over Internet Protocol.

    Internet Fibre Channel Protocol.

    Internet SCSI.

    Total Cost of Ownership.

    Conclusion.

    End Notes.

3. Building a Value Case Using Financial Metrics.

    Using Payback, ROI, NPV, and EVA.

    Payback Method.

    Return on Investment.

    Net Present Value.

    Economic Value Added.

    Value Case Analysis.

    DAS-to-SAN Migration Value Case.

    Storage Consolidation Value Case.

    DAS-to-NAS Migration Value Case.

    iSCSI Implementation Value Case.

    Conclusion.

    End Notes.

4. How it Should Be Done: Implementation Strategies and Best Practices.

    Technology Adoption.

    Storage Technology Primer.

    TCO, Tiered Storage, and Capacity Planning.

    Information Lifecycle Management.

    Performance Planning.

    Oversubscription.

    Core Topology.

    Core-Edge Topology.

    Redundancy and Resiliency.

    Choosing the Right Vendor.

    Request for Information (RFI).

    RFP/RFQ.

    Changing the Support Model Paradigm.

    Networking and IP Transport Model.

    Virtual Storage Team.

     Dedicated Storage Team.

    Outsourced Professional Services.

    Service Level Management.

    Defining the Storage Vision.

    Defining the Services.

    Finalizing the Framework Repository.

    Execution and Functional Roles.

    Role of Project Manager.

    Role of Storage Architect.

    Role of Storage Administrator.

    Role of Professional Services Staff.

    Conclusion.

    References.

5. Maximizing Storage Investments.

    Enterprise Storage Software.

    Storage Resource Management.

    Storage Operations Management.

    Cost-Saving Strategies for Storage-Centric Firms.

    Storage Consolidation.

    Server Consolidation.

    Virtualization.

    Information Lifecycle Management.

    Conclusion.

    References.

II. CASE STUDIES.

6. The Cancer Therapy and ResearchCenter.

    Executive Summary.

    Storage Environment.

    The Move to Storage Networks.

    Total Cost of Ownership.

    Future Initiatives.

    Conclusion.

7. Internet Service Provider.

    Executive Summary.

    Storage Environment.

    The Move to Storage Networks.

    Interoperability of Storage Solutions.

    Networked Storage Implementation.

    Tiered Storage Implementation.

    Storage TCO.

    Replication.

    Organizational Impact.

    Capacity Planning and Utilization.

    SRM.

    Future Initiatives.

    Conclusion.

8. Cisco Systems, Inc..

    Executive Summary.

    Environment.

    Support Infrastructure.

    The Move to Storage Networks.

    Implementation.

    Consolidation.

    TCO and ROI.

    Tiered Storage Implementation.

    Capacity Planning and Utilization.

    Storage Recovery.

    Conclusion.

    References.

9. Retail Grocer.

    Executive Summary.

    Storage Environment.

    The Move to Storage Networks.

    SAN Consolidation.

    Future Initiatives.

    Conclusion.

    References.

10. Financial Services.

    Executive Summary.

    How Derivatives Work.

    Storage Environment..

    The Move to Storage Networks.

    Data Integrity and Resiliency.

    Storage Management.

    Future Initiatives.

    Conclusion.

III. APPENDIXES.

Appendix A. Decision Maker Implementation Checklist.

Appendix B. The Business Case for Storage Networks: Storage Strategies for Lowering TCO.

Appendix C. TCO Calculator.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

**描述：**
了解儲存網路的商業案例，並透過這本全面的指南降低您的總擁有成本。

- 介紹儲存網路的好處，提供儲存網路解決方案採用與部署的全面商業案例
- 提供儲存網路的總擁有成本（TCO）方法論的完整概述
- 總結用於評估專案的 EVA、NPV 和 ROI 指標，確保其財務成功
- 概述執行儲存遷移策略的最佳實踐
- 包含 TCO 計算器和決策檢查表，您可以用來評估您的決策

在採用儲存網路解決方案時，您需要了解您決策的商業案例。然而，這個過程充滿了許多商業和技術考量。採用儲存網路解決方案將如何影響您目前的基礎設施？您的 IT 團隊將如何應對新技術的加入？您如何能將儲存網路的成本轉化為商業利益，增強您的底線並為未來的成功鋪平道路？

儲存網路技術承諾高投資回報率（ROI），並有潛力降低企業 IT 功能的成本，這可能會帶來顯著的節省。與網路儲存相關的效率提升也承諾降低儲存的總擁有成本（TCO），而較低的全負擔儲存成本意味著對大型和小型企業數據中心環境的長期節省。SAN 技術還提供了增強的業務持續性能力，以提高正常運行時間和可用性。

《儲存網路的商業案例》涵蓋了直接附加儲存（DAS）問題及儲存區域網路提供的解決方案。它詳細說明了已部署 SAN 解決方案以應對其公司面臨的重大問題的 IT 決策者和實施者的經驗，這些公司現在被昂貴、低效且難以管理的 DAS 解決方案所壓倒。《儲存網路的商業案例》解決了儲存增長和消耗增加的問題，IT 部門作為成本中心的角色，以及 SAN 技術如何幫助長期節省開支，幫助您對儲存網路投資做出明智的決策。

本書是 Cisco Press 提供的網路商業系列中的一部分。本系列的書籍為 IT 高管、決策者和網路專業人士提供有關當今最重要技術和商業策略的相關資訊。

**目錄：**
I. 儲存網路的價值主張。
1. 行業現狀：儲存成本與消耗。
- 儲存管理的重要性。
- 實施儲存願景。
- 不理性的繁榮。
- 經濟衰退的宏觀來源。
- 硬體商品化。
- 磁碟作為商品。
- 伺服器作為商品。
- 競爭對 IT 的影響。
- 法規對 IT 的影響。
- 公平披露規範。
- 萨班斯-奧克斯利法案。
- 1996年健康保險可攜性與責任法案。
- 第21章。
- 證券交易委員會。
- 利用率與產出。
- 低品質的成本與儲存問題。
- 儲存產出。
- DAS 的固有障礙。
- 利用率。
- 結論。
- 摘要。
- 結尾註釋。
2. 儲存網路技術的商業影響。
- 儲存網路的有形與無形利益。
- 與儲存網路相關的技術解決方案。
- 提高可用性。
- 備份與恢復選項。
- 無 LAN 備份。
- 無伺服器備份。
- 複製。
- 非同步複製。
- 同步複製。
- SAN 擴展。
- 光纖網路。
- 基於網際網路的光纖通道協定。
- 網際網路光纖通道協定。
- 網際網路 SCSI。
- 總擁有成本。
- 結論。
- 結尾註釋。
3. 使用財務指標建立價值案例。
- 使用回收期、ROI、NPV 和 EVA。
- 回收期方法。
- 投資回報率。
- 淨現值。
- 經濟附加值。
- 價值案例分析。
- DAS 到 SAN 遷移的價值案例。
- 儲存整合的價值案例。
- DAS 到 NAS 遷移的價值案例。
- iSCSI 實施的價值案例。
- 結論。
- 結尾註釋。
4. 應該如何進行：實施策略與最佳實踐。
- 技術採用。
- 儲存技術入門。
- TCO、分層儲存與容量規劃。
- 資訊生命週期管理。
- 性能規劃。
- 超額訂閱。
- 核心拓撲。
- 核心-邊緣拓撲。
- 冗餘與韌性。
- 選擇合適的供應商。
- 資訊請求（RFI）。
- RFP/RFQ。
- 改變支援模型範式。
- 網路與 IP 傳輸模型。
- 虛擬儲存團隊。
- 專用儲存團隊。
- 外包專業服務。

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