Information Storage and Management: Storing, Managing, and Protecting Digital Information in Classic, Virtualized, and Cloud Environments 2nd Edition

This book may have been written to accompany an entry level course in data storage technology. I found it to be a good reference on that topic. I particularly appreciate the acronym/abbreviation list, glossary, and index, which make it easy to find and understand the information in the book. My copy is right on my desk at work.

A wonderful book that takes an entry-level, but detailed, look into modern intelligent storage concepts and technologies. It takes the reader far beyond the limited a+ level concepts of storage (i.e. disks, RAID ...) to concepts found in Big Data, Cloud, and storage arrays found in large data centers and enterprises.I purchased this book in order to understand SAN and NAS storage. The first three chapters were mostly a review of what I already knew about storage devices and RAID. The book became more interesting upon transitioning to the components that made up a modern storage array. Soon I found myself reading topologies and mechanisms involved in Fibre Channel, FCoE, iSCSI, NFS and CIFS storage.Surprisingly, I wanted to read the book a second ... and also a third time. Then it occurred to me that maybe I ought to take the EMC Storage Associate certification exam. Why not? I was seeing storage management in totally new ways by now.I took and passed the exam two days ago. This book covered everything within the exam -- just as I had read elsewhere.

I found the book to be an excellent introductory to the world of storage - SAN and NAS. The information discussed was current (May 2013) and though it was written by EMC the marketing material, which was also useful, was kept to a minimum and in a separate section at the end of each chapter.

I have both this and the ISM v1 books sitting on the shelves at home.The Second Edition is a big improvement over the first. The first edition wasted a lot of ink on topics that, while interesting, are largely irrelevant (like calculating IOps by hand using disk speed and seek time). It seemed a lot more convernced with the mechanics of storage than the applicability, and as such, bogged down pretty badly in some places.This version remedies most of those complaints. It spends a lot of time on current technologies -- like cloud, flash, and others - that the first version did not.My intent on purchasing this book was to write the ISM exam. I was able to successfully do so.

An adequate introduction to recent concepts in data center management. I was hoping for more EMC-specific operational information, but the book actually lays out general concepts and then shows how specific EMC products implement those concepts. For someone transitioning from entry level to data center IT, this might be a five star book, but experienced IT professionals will know the vast majority of this information already.

ISM Book Version 2 is a terrific IT/Storage Book, even if you are not a rookie in Storage industry, because it covers the hole needed information to take E10-001 exam test successfully. Besides It is a great storage book!, even if you are not pursuing EMC Certification.My company sent me to take ISM V2, in an EMC facility training site via ILT(Instructor Led Training), so I took the official course as well, when you take it, you get a manual too, but it is not exactly the book. So I strongly suggest to buy the book, specially if you want to get EMCISA certification.Excellent Delivery by Amazon! Thumbs up

This is not a good book for a beginning student coming in fresh to these topics. I found the content hard to follow, and boring. Furthermore, the EMC marketing ploy at the end of each chapter was also annoying. For those of you who haven't read this book yet, at the end of each chapter there is a section where EMC equipment is discussed and poorly related to the chapter's topics. Instead, you're left with what reads as a marketing gimmick enumerating a bunch of fancy features shrouded by a bunch of proprietary technical terms only an EMC associate would understand.This is the de facto book to use for passing the ISM certification offered by the company, not necessarily a hassle-free piece of literature to gain insightful information storage knowledge. That is not to say there isn't valuable information to be found in this book, because there is, it is just going to take some brainpower on your part to conceptualize it.

Great book for any Storage Administrator - however, I do believe if you purchase the hardcover book, you should get the kindle version as well. I was unfortunate enough to purchase this book when the kindle version was not yet available. Cmon Amazon, you can afford to give the kindle version away for free with this! Thanks anyway for a great book that I always share with the new guys at our office or people wanting to learn storage with no previous knowledge.

Easy to read and understand.Going to use this before taking my EMC exam but can also use this as a good starting pointy to just learn about storage.

Recommended!

A perfect accompaniment to the ISM v2 course materials.Some more exercises and real world scenarios would be useful and maybe access or more than just the one practice exam.

Had a few, minor mistakes and some of the chapter questions was a bit unclear, but otherwise good.Lots of indepth information which helped me pass the e10-001 exam.

If you are trying the ISM v4 exam to became a DELL Certified Associate, that's the book to read.All chapters are aligned with the exams subjects and are very usefull. I passed the exam after studiyng it, however you need to have the basic IT knowledgement to take full advantage of the book.Focus on the chapters regarding FC infrastructure (FC Layers, Topology, zoning), backup granularity, RAID configuration, replication. Those topics will cover more than 60% of the exam.