10.5. The IT SAN Management Professional

At the top of InfoStor magazine, it says the publication provides “News and Information for Data Storage Professionals.” It’s a given that data storage professionals exist, but are there SAN management professionals?

Yes, indeed. And the future looks bright for those developing careers in SAN engineering. A quick search under “SAN” and “Storage Area Network” at dice.com produced 1532 matching listings.

Titles range from some non-SAN sounding ones, such as “Sr. Engineer (File Storage),” to some very SAN-centric ones, such as “Storage Area Network Architect.” Two annual salaries that caught our eye were $104,000 and $120,000.

Go see for yourself. Closer examination will show that a large number of the openings ...

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