Building SANs with Brocade Fabric Switches

The first book to focus on Brocade products - an inovative tecnology company to watch out for!

Brocade Switches provide the intelligent architecture that connects Storage Area Networks (SANs) to Local Area Networks and Wide Area Networks. Brocade switches provide the same functionality to Storage Area Networks as Cisco switches provide to the Internet - Brocade Communications, Inc is the dominant company in this rapidly expanding market.

Building SANs with Brocade Fibre Channel Fabric Switches is written for system administrators who are designing, building, and maintaining Storage Area Networks with Brocade fibre switches. The book provides the reader with all of the techniques necessary to integrate fibre-based switches with an IP-based network.

The first vendor-specific book on configuring industry standard technologies
Practical approach; competitive books are mostly theoretical
IT Professionals must know how to design and build a SAN. Often over 50% of IT budgets are devoted to storage. Fibre-switched SANs are the market standard

Chris Beauchamp (Brocade CFP, CSD) is a Senior SAN Architect for Brocade Communication Systems, Inc. Chris moved to Brocade in 1998 as a Systems Engineer supporting several strategic customers with the application and qualification of Silkworm fabric switches. Chris now focuses on SAN design and architecture, with an emphasis on scalability and troubleshooting. His specialties include Sun servers, storage performance analysis and capacity planning, Fibre Channel trace analysis, scripting in various languages, and SAN administration. Chris holds a Master of Science in Computer Engineering from Villanova University and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree from West Chester University. Chris’s background includes positions as a Systems Administrator at General Electric and a Systems Engineer at Sun Microsystems. Chris currently resides outside of San Jose in the Santa Cruz Mountains with his wife Sarah and daughter Meagan.

Josh Judd is a Senior SAN Architect with Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. In addition to writing technical literature, he provides senior-level strategic support for major OEMs and end-users of Brocade storage network products worldwide. When he first went to work for Brocade, he was the company's Senior IT Specialist, responsible for escalations in every area of the company's network, server, and desktop infrastructure. Josh’s career as an IT consultant has given him a diverse skill set, which includes senior-level expertise in several UNIX variants, Windows 9x/NT/2k administration, RAID configuration and optimization, storage virtualization and clustering software (such as that produced by Veritas), and network engineering with many vendors, including Cisco, Foundry, Lucent, and 3com. Before joining Brocade four years ago, Josh worked at IBM Global Services, LSI Logic, and Taos Mountain Consulting. He lives in San Jose, California.

Benjamin F. Kuo is a Software Development Manager at TROIKA Networks. Headquartered in Westlake Village, CA, TROIKA Networks is a developer of Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters, dynamic multipathing, and management software for Storage Area Networks. Ben manages development of network management software at TROIKA and is also active as the chair of the HBA API subgroup of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), where he spearheads efforts to develop interoperable standards in storage networking. Ben's background includes positions at Paracel Inc. (now Celera Genomics), IBM, Micropolis, and Echelon Corp. Ben also runs socalTECH.com, a Web site and daily newsletter focused on high tech in Southern California. Ben holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California and is a member of the IEEE. Ben lives in Moorpark, CA, with his wife Jennifer and son Jonathan.