Quantifying It Stability

This book presents a unique perspective on how terms such as GRID cluster parallel file system reliability availability maintainability and scalability are interrelated and how to quantify overall system stability in ever larger system environments that today may span around the globe. <p>This book introduces the reader to the concepts architectures philosophies and methodologies behind terms such as GRID cluster SAN NAS IO storage or interconnect. While these terms appear in the literature on a regular basis this book takes a unique approach as it focuses on quantifying scalability reliability availability and maintainability issues surrounding these rather large IT environments. The goal of this book is to illustrate how they are all linked together and hence how they have to be analyzed and quantified as a unit.