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Storage Decisions recommended reading list
By Michele Hope, Senior Site Editor, SearchStorage
Okay, this is not really a scientific list, but one we still found enlightening. Prior to September's Storage Decisions 2001 conference held in Chicago, we asked many of our expert speakers and editorial staff to send us a few titles they'd recommend others read in the storage or general IT field. Since then, we've also added a few new favorites to our recommended storage reading list.
Some expected storage titles appear repeatedly on this list. Other surprise entries also appear. Below, you'll find the complete list, along with links (where available) to learn more about each of these books. Happy reading!
- Enterprise Storage Group's Steve Duplessie recommends:
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- Building storage networks, 2nd edition, by Marc Farley.
- Building Storage, Inc.'s, Marc Farley recommends:
- Oracle 8i backup and recovery, by Rama Velpuri & Anand Adkoli.
- In search of clusters 2/E, by Gregory Pfister.
- Computer organization & design, by David Patterson.
- The switch book, by Rich Seifert.
- Storage area network essentials: A complete guide to understanding and implementing SANs(Veritas series), by Richard Barker and Paul Massiglia.
- TechTarget's VP of Editorial, Paul Gillin recommends:
- The squandered computer: Evaluating the business alignment of information technologies, by Paul A. Strassmann.
- Hackers: Heroes of the computer revolution, by Steven Levy.
- The nudist on the late shift, by Po Bronson.
- The gorilla game: Picking winners in high technology, by Geoffrey A. Moore, Paul Johnson, & Tom Kippola.
- Apple: The inside story of intrigue, egomania, and business blunders, by Jim Carlton.
- Enterprise Management Associates' Michael Karp recommends:
- Manager's guide to distributed environments, by Richard Ptak.
- The innovator's dilemma, by Clay Christiansen.
- Evolve! Succeeding in the digital culture of tomorrow, by Rosabeth Moss Kanter.
- The Evaluator Group's Randy Kerns recommends:
- Fibre Channel for SANs, by Alan F. Benner.
- Local area networks handbook, 6th edition, by John Sloan.
- SearchStorage Senior Site Editor, Michele Hope, recommends:
- Building storage networks, 2nd edition, by Marc Farley.
- The holy grail of data storage management, by Jon William Toigo.
- Blueprints for high availability: Designing resilient distributed systems, by Evan Marcus and Hal Stern.
- Disaster recovery planning, 2nd edition, by Jon William Toigo.
- Designing storage area networks: A practical reference for implementing Fibre Channel SANs, by Tom Clark.
- IP SANs: A guide to iSCSI, iFCP and FCIP protocols for storage area networks, by Tom Clark.
- Using SANs and NAS, by Curtis Preston.
- Network Appliance CTO Steve Kleiman recommends:
- The innovator's dilemma, by Clay Christiansen.
- Legato CTO Bobby Young recommends:
- Building storage networks, 2nd edition, by Marc Farley.
- Disaster recovery planning, 2nd edition, by Jon William Toigo.
- Dragon Slayer Consulting's Marc Staimer recommends:
- Building storage networks, 2nd edition, by Marc Farley.
- The holy grail of data storage management, by Jon William Toigo.
- Blueprints for high availability: Designing resilient distributed systems, by Evan Marcus and Hal Stern.
- High availability: design, techniques and processes, by Floyd Piedad and Michael Hawkins.
- Storage area networks: Designing and implementing a mass storage system, by Ralph Thornburgh and Barry Schoenborn.
If you'd like to hear more about what many of these speakers had to say at Storage Decisions 2001, or view their presentations, please go to our comprehensive Storage Decisions 2001 featured topic.
This was first published in September 2001
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