Bill Williams

The Business Case For Storage Networks

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cisco Press / Macmillan Technical Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 177mm x 1mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9781587201189
• ISBN-10: 1587201186
• Artikelnr.: 13225552

Autorenporträt

Bill Williams is a Systems Engineering Manager at Cisco Systems, Inc. where he focuses on data center and application networking products for service providers in the United States. Bill is an eight-year veteran of Cisco and is the author of The Business Case for Storage Networks, published in 2004. Bill is currently documenting strategies and processes for building the next generation service delivery data center. Additionally, Bill is updating his business case methodology to quantify the business value of green initiatives and to measure the business impact of other inflection points in the service provider market. Bill holds master's degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Harvard University. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with his wife, Lia, and their three children: Isabel, Lee, and Catherine.