Your Guide to Books on Storage

In light of this month’s theme, Storage in 2010, we’ve compiled some books on data storage and more energy-efficient IT operations. Have you read one of these titles or did we leave a great book out? Let me know at Melanie@ITKnowledgeExchange.com and we’ll add it to our list!

• The Green and Virtual Data Center by Greg Schulz: (CRC/Auerbach Publications, 2009) Rather than focusing on the political side of the green movement, Schulz highlights the realistic and technologically possible ways to upgrade to or create a more sustainable data center.
• Grow a Greener Data Center by Douglas Alger: (Cisco Press, 2009) “A guide to building and operating energy-efficient, ecologically sensitive IT and facilities infrastructure.
• Information Storage and Management: Storing, Managing and Protecting Digital Information by EMC: (Wiley, 2009) A wide angle view of “concepts, principles, and deployment considerations – rather than product specifics.”
• Storage, Data and Information Systems by John Wilkes, Christopher Hoover, Beth Keer and Pankaj Mehra: (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, 2008) Described as a “refreshingly straightforward introduction to an important area,” check this title out if you want the facts in an easy-to-understand format.
• Storage Area Networks for Dummies, 2nd Edition by Christopher Poelker and Alex Nikitin: (2009) From the basic “What are SANs?” SANs for Dummies addresses all of your questions to help you navigate your way through the subject.
• Storage Virtualization: Technologies for Simplifying Data Storage and Management by Tom Clark: (Addison-Wesley Professional, 2005) An objective and technical look at one of the saviors of storage managers.
• Storage Networks Explained, 2nd Edition by Ulf Troppens, Rainer Erkens, Wolfgang Mueller-Friedt, Rainer Wolafka and Nis Haustein: (Wiley, 2009) For the ins and outs of SANs – the uses, forms and benefits – check out this book. For anyone in IT systems planning or operating.

What books or guides have helped you figure out your storage needs and best practices?

Melanie Yarbrough is the assistant community editor at ITKnowledgeExchange.com. Follow her on Twitter or send her an email at Melanie@ITKnowledgeExchange.com.