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Administering Data Centers: Servers, Storage, and Voice over IP

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happen to read this book at one of my friend's place. I couldn't resist to buy it immediately. I have been working as System Administrator for last 8 years, but found all aspect required for Data Center operations from scratch. Various topics covered, like power requirement or Air conditioning to Server performance, networking with storage technologies in impressive manner with excellent style of subject presentation.

This book is an asset for Data center managers or Systems Administrators also can be used from Academic point of view by Computer informations systems students.


Anitha Lingala

Book has illustrative real-life examples. It sure covers many topics, however each topicsa has enough matter and depth. Areas such as HA, network and DR and well covered. Data center design is described well.

I recently read this book and found it extremely useful for myriad of concepts related to data centers. It presents lots of information with a very practical bent. Book covers many aspects of Data centers in very comprehensive and detailed manner without attaching itself to any specific technology or platform. Especially the aspects of networking and server performace are very well covered. The abundance of woderfully lucidly written practical information from the field makes this book distinctive and shows that the author has been around and learnt practically on the way. I like the "Tales from the Turf"; these are interesting actual stories relevant to the chapters.

This book is an asset for people working with data centers while being very readable and informative for people not directly involved with data centers. Simpler presentation of technical topics makes it useful for non-technical managers without burying them in technical details. It could also be used as a solid foundation for the students of Computer Information Systems or Systems Management.

I would recommend this book to any network, systems, or server administrator, even if obtaining the certification is not desired. This is one of the most precious resources I have in my bookshelf. Aside from its fine organization, the book states the learning objectives for each chapter and complements them with vivid graphical representation wherever possible to ensure understanding by readers.
I strongly recommend having this as a quick reference guide as every single topic has been taken up and discussed with utmost simplicity. You don't have to be a Rocket Scientist to grasp logics of the topics. 100% value for my money.

Thanks again for coming up with this wonderful work of its kind on such a topic.

Very good book, well written and easy to understand. Covers all aspects of standing up a data center, although at a high level. Each chapter could be the subject of a number of books. This is a good all around primer which will give you enough knowledge to be able to get the most from more in-depth books.

This is one of the best book to read specially for sysadmins , network administrators and Datacenter Administrator.I have read the book and have been benifitted a lot from it.

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Amitabh Talukdar
Unix System Administrator
Cisco Systems

This book does provide some good hands on information related to Data Center design and implementation along with some interesting description of Terms & Glossary, it's worth having in your bookshelf

Best,
Malahat Qureshi Ph.D.

I had been looking for a comprehensive book on data center adminstration for a long time. The book takes readers through the setup and technologies behind data centers. At the end of each chapter is a section on key points and best practices. I like the the best practices sections as it helps one focus on important issues. Navigating through the complex world of these myrid networking, security and clustering technologies is easy while reading this book. The author has identified VoIP convergence as an important disruptive change and talks about that in the context of data centers. Authentication schemes were simple to understand in this text. Highly recommended for both newbees and seasoned professionals.

The book is very comprehensive, covers many topics and each is covered in good detail. Concepts are explained in simple language. A must-read for all data center administrators