Storage Industry Learning Resources recommendation

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Mobile Internet, IoT, cloud computing, e-commerce, business intelligence, information search, social networking, ..., it has never lacked hot technology trends and business gimmicks. It's hard for me to wait for it people, after all, time and energy is very limited, we need to choose one or two directions as their career or career goals, so-called surgery industry has specialized, choose the right direction may be more effective. I am here to recommend to the storage industry, a very promising area, it is the network technology after another wave of technology. What are the reasons for recommending? First, material, energy and information are the three basic objects of natural science research, processing, transmitting and storing are the three basic tasks of information computation. It is inevitable that information storage becomes a technological wave. Second, in fact, data has replaced computing as the center of Information Computing. Information is exploding, and according to forecasts, the 2020 data universe will reach 35.2 ZB, which is 44 times times higher than in 2009, more than 80% of which are unstructured data. Actual demand for storage requirements for the improvement, mainly in the large storage capacity, high performance, scalability, high security, high availability, high manageability and so on. Third, storage development momentum, the future of huge market space, new technologies, popular technical words include PCIe3.0, FCOE, ISCSI, 10GbE, SSD, PNFS (NFSv4.1), NoSQL, file system, cluster storage, cloud storage, efficient storage (compression, Data deduplication, thin provisioning, tiered storage, virtualization, intelligent storage, green storage, data fault tolerance, data security.

For the students who want to transfer to the storage industry, the basic knowledge of storage is a required course of study. For the students already in the storage industry, in order to advance the need to continue to learn, think and practice, and closely follow and follow the latest development of storage technology. Whether it is learning to lay the groundwork, or the Advanced research practice, the most direct is the dissemination and exchange of knowledge and experience, which includes books, industry and academic conferences, websites and forums, and open source. The knowledge of books is more systematic, comprehensive and professional, covering basic entry level and research into class, you should have a few classic storage books in order to learn and consult at any time. Storage industry meetings often report and share a large amount of the latest storage events, technology development status, and the latest research results, and the opportunity to attend these meetings in person is naturally the best, not the participants can download slides and papers for learning and research, both to understand and track the latest advances in storage. We are fortunate to be in a good time, the most abundant and convenient internet resources, professional storage site to provide the latest industry information, technical cattle will often publish technical articles on the blog, the Forum is the technology of the people to carry out technical discussion and exchange of good place. Open source community has a large number of open source for reading, testing and use, if there is time and energy, or as much as possible to look at the source code, you can also write some open source software, the practice can contribute a little bit of the power of open source. Here to recommend some storage learning related resources, and to make a brief personal comments, I hope the storage industry like-minded friends have some help, if there is improper also please correct me.

[Save Book]
Watchstor has a storage boutique book exhibition, the recommended storage books more pertinent, see Http://tech.watchstor.com/spec/watchstor for details. Here are a few books I have basically studied, briefly talk about my experience.
The path to storage expertise , storage fundamentals, storage market prospects and technology trends are commendable, providing beginners with advice on career planning and training certifications from getting started to mastering and achieving storage professionals. In addition, the introduction and analysis of mainstream storage vendors and their storage products, storage requirements and planning for different industries, industry storage solutions, and application and storage architectures is very valuable for mid-level readers. The book has been read many times and is often browsed.

Big talk storage , the book is very characteristic of the writing, its author of Wax gourd perennial in the major storage forums, the recent occasional haunt in bending comments. The book is more comprehensive, but the depth is not enough, but for beginners as an introductory study is more than sufficient. Big Talk Storage 2 will be published in 2011.3, the legend of depth to strengthen a lot, even to achieve the level of code and granularity, real-time must buy this study.

An introduction to networked Storage Technology | Networked storage Technology , these two good, as the entry-level network storage learning is also the right choice, as the university textbooks are very suitable.
information storage and Management , EMC published technology books, covers concepts, principles, and scenarios that are deployed throughout the entire information storage and management technology category. EMC is important in the storage world and is a key player and contributor to many storage standards and protocols. As a result, the terminology, concepts, standards, and techniques introduced in the book are standard, consistent with industry, and elaborate in place, and are a very rare book to store. A bit of a disadvantage, the case in the book is EMC's storage product.

data reproduction , is the sister of the big story storage, the principle of the mainstream file system and data recovery technology is detailed, the level of detail is unique. This book is strictly professional, the style and the storage of big talk is very different, I also bought both books.

Object-based networked storage , in-depth discussion of the Protocol standard for object network storage SCSI and iSCSI as well as related file systems such as Pnfs, Lustre, Panfs, ZFS, OBFS, etc., is a good book.

The principle and design of mass networked storage system , the topics of RAID, object storage System, large scale networked storage system, usability, security research, CDP and data backup are introduced. Its greatest feature is not only to discuss the basic principles and concepts, the current situation at home and abroad, design and evaluation methods, but also to give some specific design optimization and implementation of the project examples, for the research and development staff is very useful, this book I benefited a lot.

data storage backup and disaster recovery , engaged in data protection related workers can see more. Data backup, archiving, disaster recovery in the storage software market accounted for the largest percentage, other storage classmates look also no harm.

SAN storage Area Network |ipsan authoritative guide , which is the two authoritative books on San and Ipsan, and the students who are dedicated to the research and development of storage networks can learn a bit more. By the way, the translator of the previous book is the teacher of my former institute.

[Storage Industry Meeting]
SNIA (STORAVCBE netwokring Industry Association), the Storage Network Industry association , currently includes almost all major storage vendors. The storage Developer conference, which is organized every year, is very large, attracting many industrial manufacturers and academic research institutions and has a very wide impact. In addition, it organizes SNIa tutorials regularly, which is also a useful storage learning material. SNIa's SDC conference materials and tutorials Materials I will basically download and study, and focus on the direction of my interests. Its information is available for free download and can be obtained from the following URL:
Http://www.snia.org/events/storage-developer2010/presentations
Http://www.snia.org/events/storage-developer2009/presentations
Http://www.snia.org/events/storage-developer2008/presentations
(In the future or earlier, you know!)
Http://www.snia.org/education/tutorials

Storage-academy is the subordinate body of SNIa , to this meeting I know less before, or see Crquan eldest brother in Tektalk published article only understand, later downloaded 2010 meeting material, feel general and SNIa almost. According to this meeting can apply for free participation, we can try.
http://www.storage-academy.com/
http://www.storage-academy.com/presentations/sg/(password is provided by Sgdel10,crquan, good luck should still be effective)

Linux Storage & Filesystem workshop, the study of the Conference regularly read the paper, Usenix people should be more familiar with it, LSF has been organized by it, 2009 years later transferred by the Linux Foundation held. LSF biased academic research, mainly related to the Linux system storage technology and file system, relatively suitable for the students in the Reading, Academic research field storage frontier information is more abundant. It is commendable that all materials are downloaded free of charge and are permanently archived.
http://www.usenix.org/event/lsf08/tech/
http://www.usenix.org/event/lsf07/tech/
Http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/lsf-summit

Usenix Fast (Conference on file and Storage Technologies) is a conference on files and storage technology , and fast may be the best professional meeting for storage, which is only for storage-related content, The most prestigious meeting in the field. Like LSF, it belongs to the school style and is full of academic research atmosphere. The model, algorithm, theory and so on ideas many, but mostly limited to academic theory research, no prototype system realizes, let alone industrial grade product transformation. Fast academic research value is very high, it is worth your classmates to study and study.
http://www.usenix.org/events/fast/

IEEE Storage Conference, the well-known IEEE believes that everyone is not unfamiliar, its history is very long (held in 1974), in the business of great influence, mainly focus on high-performance computing in the field of mass storage technology. It is expensive to attend, and the information is not easy to obtain free of charge. In the past at the institute, it is free to download some of the paper information, and now only occasionally from the Internet to search for relevant information. If the conditions allow, it is recommended that students pay more attention to it.
http://storageconference.org/

System Architect Conference | Web performance and Operations conference, these two domestic conferences are not professional storage industry meetings. Over the past two years, however, the Internet industry has grown rapidly, with large storage requirements and significant differences from traditional storage, such as small image storage, VOD storage, CDN storage, and NoSQL, including structured and unstructured data storage. At these meetings, the Internet and storage vendors share a number of new attempts and experiences in storage, including architecture, algorithms, development, testing, and operations. Participation fee is lower, if the company is a sponsor, there will be a certain number of free attendance, the meeting is held in Beijing, Shanghai, these two cities are IT staff gathering place, the participants are very convenient. If you have the conditions to recommend everyone to participate, communication and experience will be a lot less detours.
Http://sacc.it168.com/index.html
http://velocity.oreilly.com.cn/index.php?func=schedule&page=2010-12-07

[Storage website Forum]
InfoStor: http://www.infostor.com
Infostor Magazine hosts a professional storage information website that publishes storage industry news and analytics, expert blogs, and storage whitepapers. The amount of information is very large, the impact is also large, covering all areas of storage, including Nas, SAN, storage management, data protection raid, archiving and so on. Many of my storage industry messages were originally acquired by it, and I joined their mailing lists, basically receiving emails every day and seeing a few articles.

Dostor: http://www.dostor.com/
doit forum: http://bbs.doit.com.cn
Watchstor: http://www.watchstor.com/
watchstor Forum: http://bbs.watchstor.com/
This is a more well-known domestic two storage professional media and their storage forum, the amount of information is also very rich, much of it mainly from foreign sites such as Infostor, very suitable for domestic storage people. Their forums and blogs are still very popular, with the frequent presence of Daniel and experts to comment and communicate technical issues.

Chinaunix Storage Backup Forum: http://bbs.chinaunix.net/forum-34-1.html
CU Storage Forum is a crouching tiger Hidden Dragon, gathered a large number of Linux veterans and storage industry insiders, including storage vendors and soft writers, storage sales and agents, storage system administrators, storage developers and storage experts, the popularity of the discussion and exchange of technical issues to storage-oriented but not limited to this. If there is a storage problem consultation or related technical exchange, we strongly recommend this tour. Very interesting, here often because of technical problems to win, and sometimes a large number of divers surfaced on the surface of the crowd, and there are even a lot of mutual abuse and personal attacks. In short, this place is very interesting.

InfoQ: http://www.infoq.com
INFOQ focuses on changes and innovations in enterprise software development and often discusses storage-related topics, which are, of course, more professional and serious, and better suited to architects and developers.

tektalk:  http://www.tektalk.org
Chen's Flex review, if you are in the network and storage technology industry, this must be there. The articles published on the bend are generally very professional and deep, and comments and responses are more incisive and intense, where both beginners and senior people can learn what they need. Before bending mainly to the topic of network technology, the recent storage of the topic began to more up, there are many storage professionals to join in. Bending readers too much, often you go to the company interview unknowingly chatted to the bending, visible influence of the broad. Bent on all know, bending the author is not a lot, because in the bending of the article is required strength, Copy+paste will definitely be a batch of pieces, I believe that can not afford this face. So remind everyone, the curved water is very deep, the level is not enough, please carefully try the water, onlookers nature is popular.

[Store open source software]
http://www.kernel.org
Http://sourceforge.net
http://code.google.com/
http://www.oschina.net/
http://code.taobao.org/
Before the source code, there is no secret to say. Linux Torvalds, "Talk is cheap, show me the Code". For developers and researchers, the source code is the best reference. Storage open source, the first push the Linux kernel source code and sourceforge on the source code, these people all understand. Google code is dominated by small open source and code snippets, and the Chinese open source community is primarily a collection of open source software information. It is worth mentioning that Alibaba and Taobao recently to open source is very important, Taobao code on the open some of the company's internal use of the storage system source code, such as Tair, TFS, but the platform on the third party source code is relatively small. Officially, TFS (Taobao FileSystem) is a highly scalable, highly available, high-performance, Internet-oriented Distributed file system designed to support massive, unstructured data. Be interested in Distributed file system must not miss TFS, after all, the domestic open source is very rare.

Storage Industry Learning Resources recommendation