IT Infrastructure Architecture - Infrastructure Building Blocks and Concepts Second Edition

For many decades IT infrastructure has provided the foundation for successful application deployment. Yet general knowledge of infrastructures is still not widespread. Experience shows that software developers system administrators and project managers often have little knowledge of the big influence IT infrastructures have on the performance availability and security of software applications. This book explains the concepts history and implementation of IT infrastructures. Although many of books can be found on individual infrastructure building blocks this is the first book to describe all of them: datacenters servers networks storage virtualization operating systems and end user devices. Whether you need an introduction to infrastructure technologies a refresher course or a study guide for a computer science class you will find that the presented building blocks and concepts provide a solid foundation for understanding the complexity of todays IT infrastructures.