Free PDF download provides introduction to the fundamentals of storage technologies and storage networks

Issued by Opportun(at)e for Fujitsu Siemens Computers

Johannesburg, 14 Jan 2009

Getting to grips with the ever-growing flood of data is still the greatest challenge faced by most organisations with regard to information storage. This applies not only to large companies and their data centres, but also has a business-critical impact on small and medium enterprises. Intended to provide a clear, easy-to-read path through the storage jungle, Fujitsu Siemens Computers has published a new book, Storage Basics.

Storage Basics features valuable information from experts on a comprehensive set of storage-related topics such as disk-based online storage, and tape technology. It explains why backup and restore is a necessary chore, outlines how proper data management can ease the burden of managing storage networks, and reveals the differences between a storage area network and network-attached storage.

Additionally, the Storage Basics book covers future storage trends, and explains the hype around the current buzz, storage virtualisation. The book is also a pocket-size guide to the storage technologies offered by Fujitsu Siemens Computers and its partners - from single LTO tape drives and tapes through to the top-of-the-range CentricStor VT solution.

Storage Basics is available free-of-charge as a PDF download from the Fujitsu Siemens Computers Web site at: http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/products/storage/storage_basics_register.html

Fujitsu Siemens Computers

Fujitsu Siemens Computers is the leading European IT infrastructure provider. By delivering infrastructure products, solutions and services as well as managed infrastructure or a combination of these offerings, customers have the freedom to choose whatever IT infrastructure fits best to their specific needs.

Fujitsu Siemens Computers is present in all key markets in Europe, Africa and the Middle East serving large, small or medium-sized companies or private consumers, while its Infrastructure Services division is active in 170 countries. The company benefits from the global cooperation and innovation power of both its shareholders, Fujitsu and Siemens AG.

Fujitsu Siemens Computers is one of the pioneers in offering a complete range of environmentally conscious products and in using environmentally friendly technologies and processes throughout the entire lifecycle of a product.

More information about Fujitsu Siemens Computers is at: http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com./ Additional information about social responsibility is at: http://www.fujitsu-siemens.de/aboutus/sor/index.html.

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Free PDF download provides introduction to the fundamentals of storage technologies and storage networks

Do you know your SAN from your NAS? How does iSCSI compare to FC? How close is your near-line storage and what does a VTA do? The answers to all these storage-related questions, and more, can be found in a new book published by Fujitsu Siemens Computers, entitled Storage Basics.