Bill Williams

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Compras Nikon Bluetooth

1 Presents the Business Case, Not the Technical.
Computer Architecture, Computer Architecture - General, Although Cisco is well noted for the technical depth of most of their books, this is not really a technical book. Instead it is aimed at the buisness manager who is thinking of installing a Storage Area Networks (SAN). It covers how to calculate such things as the total cost of ownership, the effect on your current infrastructure and how the present IT staff will cope with the new equipment, the new technology.

The book is not completely untechnical. It includes a complete overview of the concepts which include the interconnection systems, the topology, backup and replication, etc. But these subjects are covered at the business manager level, not the level of the technicians responsible for the actual installation of the system.

All in all, the clearest business oriented book on the subject I've seen.

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• Storage Area Networks for Dummies

If you've done six impossible things before breakfast, why not round it

off with dinner at Milliway's, the restaurant at the end of the universe?

		-- Douglas Adams, "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"





	While the engineer developed his thesis, the director leaned over to

his assistant and whispered, "Did you ever hear of why the sea is salt?"

	"Why the sea is salt?" whispered back the assistant.  "What do you

mean?"

	The director continued: "When I was a little kid, I heard the story of

`Why the sea is salt' many times, but I never thought it important until just

a moment ago.  It's something like this: Formerly the sea was fresh water and

salt was rare and expensive.  A miller received from a wizard a wonderful

machine that just ground salt out of itself all day long.  At first the miller

thought himself the most fortunate man in the world, but soon all the villages

had salt to last them for centuries and still the machine kept on grinding

more salt.  The miller had to move out of his house, he had to move off his

acres.  At last he determined that he would sink the machine in the sea and

be rid of it.  But the mill ground so fast that boat and miller and machine

were sunk together, and down below, the mill still went on grinding and that's

why the sea is salt."

	"I don't get you," said the assistant.

		-- Guy Endore, "Men of Iron"