Designing Storage Area Networks: A Practical Reference for Implementing Fibre Channel and IP SANs, Second Edition

Acknowledgments

In writing the current edition of Designing Storage Area Networks I have been the beneficiary of the hard work done by thousands of others over the past decade of SAN development. Explaining how a technology works is trivial compared with the enormous effort required to define and produce viable solutions. I therefore first of all wish to acknowledge, collectively, the technologists, engineers, architects, implementers, systems engineers, support personnel, end users, and yes, even marketers, who have helped to shape the diversity of products and applications that have enabled storage networking. Storage networking is an enabling technology for ready access to information, which in turn holds promise for improving our common condition. ...