Information Storage and Management: Storing, Managing, and Protecting Digital Information

Acknowledgments

When we embarked upon the project to develop this book, the very first challenge was to identify a team of subject matter experts covering the vast range of technologies that form the modern information storage infrastructure.

A key factor working in our favor is that at EMC, we have the technologies, the know-how, and many of the best talents in the industry. When we reached out to individual experts, they were as excited as we were about the prospect of publishing a comprehensive book on information storage technology. This was an opportunity to share their expertise with professionals and students worldwide.

This book is the result of efforts and contributions from a number of key EMC organizations led by EMC Education Services and supported by the office of CTO, Global Marketing, and EMC Engineering.

In addition to his own research and expertise, Ganesh Rajaratnam, from EMC Education Services, led the efforts with other subject matter experts to develop the first draft of the book. Dr. David Black, from the EMC CTO office, devoted many valuable hours to combing through the content and providing cogent advice on the key topics covered in this book.

We are very grateful to the following experts from EMC Education Services for developing the content for various sections and chapters of this book:

• Rodrigo Alves

• Charlie Brooks

• Debasish Chakrabarty

• Diana Davis

• Amit Deshmukh

• Michael Dulavitz

• Ashish Garg

• Dr. Vanchi Gurumoorthy

• Simon Hawkshaw

• Anbuselvi Jeyakumar

• Sagar Kotekar Patil ...