Realtimepublishers and PolyServe Announce the Immediate Release of The Definitive Guide to Building Highly Scalable Enterprise File Serving Solutions for Data Center / Storage Management Professionals.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- Industry Expert Chris Wolf Authors This New Six-Chapter eBook on File Serving Deployment and Management in Both the Windows and Linux Environments Realtimepublishers, the worldwide leader in corporate sponsored ePublishing, and PolyServe, the leading provider of software for enabling utility computing (1) Pay-per-usage processing provided by a service organization that uses its own computers and facilities. Customers access the computers via a private network or over the Internet and are charged according to how much computing time they use, such as CPU seconds, minutes or hours. on Linux and Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. (R) in enterprise data centers, announced the immediate release of The Definitive Guide to Building Highly Scalable Enterprise File Serving Solutions. Written for IT professionals tasked with data center administration and network storage architecture/management duties, this vendor-neutral guide offers expert instruction on maintaining data availability Refers to the degree to which data can be instantly accessed. The term is mostly associated with service levels that are set up either by the internal IT organization or that may be guaranteed by a third party datacenter or storage provider. and scaling out existing infrastructure to meet increasing data storage demands. Authored by Microsoft MVP (Multimedia Video Processor) A high-speed DSP chip from Texas Instruments, introduced in 1994. Officially introduced as the TMS320C80, it combines RISC technology with the functionality of four DSPs on one chip. and respected tech columnist Chris Wolf, this new eBook discusses the many disk, server, performance, and availability options for improving your file serving solutions. "In the last decade, file serving has evolved into a major component of business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets . Compounding the challenges that administrators face are the high demands for availability, performance, and file storage that ranges from hundreds of gigabytes to terabytes. Fortunately, several new technologies have emerged to help ease the file serving availability, performance, and performance burdens. But with many solutions being costly and complex, it's important to know which is right for your organization," explains industry expert and author Chris Wolf. "In The Definitive Guide to Building Highly Scalable Enterprise File Serving Solutions, I examine the complex landscape of technology solutions available, ranging from stand-alone servers, to NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular , virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. , and clustering. Real-world examples of how leading technologies are easing file serving deployment and management are provided for both Windows and Linux environments." The Definitive Guide to Building Highly Scalable Enterprise File Serving Solutions will be written in real-time and eBook chapters will be published and posted monthly as soon as they are completed, ensuring the most timely, topic-specific information available. The first chapter, "Moving Beyond Current File Serving Philosophies," is currently available. The eBook is sponsored by PolyServe, and is offered at no charge from their Web site at: http://www.polyserve.com/ebook_register.php. Realtimepublishers also offers the eBook from their Content Central eBook portal at: http://cc.realtimepublishers.com/portal.aspx?pubid=340. "Data center managers and storage administrators are under tremendous pressure right now to have the right answers for managing the explosion of unstructured data Data that does not reside in fixed locations. Free-form text in a word processing document is a typical example. Contrast with structured data. See free-form database. that live in files," said Steve Norall, director of marketing at PolyServe. "We believe this eBook will be an invaluable guide for those who want to implement a scalable, high-performance and manageable file serving infrastructure -- without breaking the bank." "Realtimepublishers is dedicated to producing expert resources that IT professionals can depend on to get the latest instruction on topics that affect their work. This eBook will be the go-to guide for implementing file serving solutions," said Sean Daily, Founder of Realtimepublishers. "We are eager to add this title to our growing library of storage management eBooks, and we are excited to work with PolyServe to make this resource available to the storage management community." About the Author Chris Wolf is a Microsoft MVP for Windows Server -- File System and is a MCSE See Microsoft certification. MCSE - Microsoft Certified System Engineer , MCT See Microsoft certification. , and CCNA See Cisco certification. . He's an instructor with ECPI ECPI European Council for Plasticisers and Intermediates (European plasticiser trade association) ECPI Electronic Crime Partnership Initiative ECPI Electronic Computer Programming Institute ECPI Early Career Principal Investigator Technical College and an independent consultant who specializes in the areas of enterprise storage, virtualization solutions, and network infrastructure management. Chris is the author of Virtualization: From the Desktop to the Enterprise (Apress), Troubleshooting Microsoft Technologies (Addison Wesley), and a contributor to the Windows Server 2003 Deployment Kit (Microsoft Press). About Realtimepublishers Realtimepublishers is the worldwide leader in corporate sponsored ePublishing for the technology industry. Providing turn-key publishing and production services for technology companies, Realtimepublishers produces electronic and printed books, video tutorials, white papers, reference guides, webinars, articles, and more. With a who's who list of industry expert authors, a veteran editorial staff, and a leading content delivery system through its information portal, Content Central (http://cc.realtimepublishers.com), Realtimepublishers offers the most current expert resources for IT professionals. Current Realtimepublishers' sponsors include Microsoft, NetIQ, Computer Associates, Novell, Dell, AlterPoint, ScriptLogic, and more. For more information, please visit http://www.realtimepublishers.com. About PolyServe PolyServe, Inc. is a leading provider of software for enabling utility computing on Linux and Microsoft Windows(R) in enterprise data centers. PolyServe's unique shared data clustering software virtualizes industry-standard servers and storage as a single system to set new price-performance standards for file serving and server consolidation. In addition to its headquarters in Beaverton, Ore., PolyServe has a Microsoft development center in Bellevue, Wash. It also has sales and support offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, London, Minneapolis, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Washington, D.C. and San Francisco. For more information about PolyServe, visit http://www.polyserve.com, or call 877-476-5973. |
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