Storage Foundations

This work is written to deliver a foundational understanding of the many building blocks of data storage, and best practices to apply storage building blocks in the real world; to deliver the best possible service at the lowest possible cost to your company … spend less, deliver more. Storage+ Powered by SNIA Certification - In career development, evidence of competency through industry certifications is critical. This book is written to serve as a study guide for the CompTIA Storage+ Powered by SNIA certification. Key Learnings (possible Storage+ Powered by SNIA Exam Topics) are referenced. How deep will this guide and the exam take us? Are we learning how to tell time, or how to make a watch? …. Actually a little bit of both. A technically literate friend asked me … “disk drives, they are all the same, they just work, right?” Flash forward into your future as an IT Data Storage Certified Professional. You will have customers, either internal business units consuming IT, or customers purchasing IT services from the company you work for. Your customers will ask you to “make-do” with pre-existing hardware and software. Sometimes “making do” with existing equipment will be acceptable, but often “making do” with existing equipment will put the entire business operation at risk.