Data Lifecycles: Managing Data for Strategic Advantage by Roger Reid

Product Description

Businesses now rely almost entirely on applications and databases, causing data and storage needs to increase at astounding rates. It is therefore imperative for a company to optimize and simplify the complexity of managing its data resources.

Plenty of storage products are now available, however the challenge remains for companies to proactively manage their storage assets and align the resources to the various departments, divisions, geographical locations and business processes to achieve improved efficiency and profitability. Data Lifecycles identifies ways to incorporate an intelligent service platform to manage and map the storage of data. The authors give an overview of the latest trends and technologies in storage networking and cover critical issues such as world-wide compliance.

Data Lifecycles:
Provides a single-source guide to data and storage methodologies, processes, technologies and compliance issues.
Addresses the need of an encompassing intelligent data and storage management platform for modern businesses.
Gives an overview of the latest data technologies and concepts such as utility computing and information lifecycle management.
Clearly defines and describes lifecycle management and strategies to ensure growth of critical business data.
Shows how to dramatically reduce the total cost of storage ownership and provide rapid return on investment.
Enables customers to make decisions directed toward the purchase of storage tools and storage management solutions.

This text is an ideal introduction to modern data lifecycle management for network managers, system administrators, storage/system architects, network managers, information management directors as well as CIO/CTOs and their teams, senior IT managers and decision makers, and database administrators.
Product Details
Amazon Sales Rank: #1098227 in Books
Published on: 2007-01-29
Number of items: 1
Binding: Hardcover
268 pages
Editorial Reviews

Review
"This quick and easy read is recommended for decision makers…" (Computing Reviews.com, May 31, 2007)

From the Back Cover
Businesses now rely almost entirely on applications and databases, causing data and storage needs to increase at astounding rates. It is therefore imperative for a company to optimize and simplify the complexity of managing its data resources.


Plenty of storage products are now available, however the challenge remains for companies to proactively manage their storage assets and align the resources to the various departments, divisions, geographical locations and business processes to achieve improved efficiency and profitability. Data Lifecycles identifies ways to incorporate an intelligent service platform to manage and map the storage of data. The authors give an overview of the latest trends and technologies in storage networking and cover critical issues such as world-wide compliance.


Data Lifecycles:
Provides a single-source guide to data and storage methodologies, processes, technologies and compliance issues.
Addresses the need of an encompassing intelligent data and storage management platform for modern businesses.
Gives an overview of the latest data technologies and concepts such as utility computing and information lifecycle management.
Clearly defines and describes lifecycle management and strategies to ensure growth of critical business data.
Shows how to dramatically reduce the total cost of storage ownership and provide rapid return on investment.
Enables customers to make decisions directed toward the purchase of storage tools and storage management solutions.


This text is an ideal introduction to modern data lifecycle management for network managers, system administrators, storage/system architects, network managers, information management directors as well as CIO/CTOs and their teams, senior IT managers and decision makers, and database administrators.

About the Author
Roger Reid is an Enterprise Storage Architect for VERITAS Software Corporation with over ten years’ combined industry experience supporting various Fortune 500 customers in architecting and implementing a variety of storage solutions including storage area networks, storage virtualization, active storage resource management, backup and hierarchal storage management products.

Gareth Fraser-King is the Manager for Product Marketing in the European, Middle East, and African emerging territories producing high level messaging, white papers, articles, presentations, and marketing deliverables. He has worked as a writer and marketer for over 20 years, the last 10 within the IT industry, and possesses a wide range of marketing experience, including copywriting, business, technical and service authoring, as well as business development, operation efficiency, strategic planning, affinity marketing, product development and quality management.
Customer Reviews

ok, but somewhat overpriced
The authors attempt to raise the consciousness of the technical reader about clarifying the different types of data that her company stores. The reader might perhaps be an IT manager, who has to deal with issues like deciding when to buy new storage media, and what type of media this should be.

The text suggests that many companies simply view storage as being of infinite capacity, and always available, ie. online. This is too simplistic and very costly. There should be a scrutiny that classifies data. Specifically, you should decide what data really needs to be continuously online. Data outside this category should be either deleted or committed to offline storage, which is invariably much cheaper. Here, the cost savings arise from the offline media being cheaper and by lower power costs. Since the offline media should be held without any power consumption.

The authors are all from Symantec. But the book is careful to mention Symantec only a few times. Its advice is broadly applicable and vendor independent.

The discussion is useful. But the list price of $100 [!] seems excessive.