Quantifying IT Stability - Softcover

Heger Ph.D., Dominique A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440106975 ISBN 13: 9781440106972

Publisher: iUniverse, 2008

Synopsis

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. 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.

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About the Author

Dr. Dominique Heger has over 22 years of IT research, design and implementation experience, focusing on performance modeling and capacity planning. He is the owner/founder of DHTechnologies, an IT consulting company in Texas. He has successfully conducted scalability, availability, reliability, and maintainability studies for Boeing, AT&T, LLNL, NERSC, Wachovia, and CERN. Dr. Heger worked for IBM, Hewlett-Packard (at CERN Geneva), and Unisys. He has published over 30 papers on IT performance related topics, and authored 3 core chapters of the IBM Press Book Performance Tuning for Linux Servers. He holds an MBA from Maryville University St. Louis, and a Ph.D. in Information Systems from NSU, Florida. He lives with his wife in Dripping Springs, TX. Next to IT consulting, he enjoys training horses and to team rope.

Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1440106975
• ISBN 13: 9781440106972
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 220