An excellent primer on network storage-perhaps the only in depth, book length treatment of the subject. The book does, however, suffer from conventional thinking. In particular, Toigo buys into the flawed notion that the number one reason for SAN architectures is to save network bandwidth. Recommended as good background reading on enterprise storage. Mead's climactic speech at Telecosm, ending with a prolonged standing ovation, focused less on Foveon's amazing new chip and its impact on cameras than on his new book and its promise of a revolution in the physics of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Some mathematics afflicts about two-thirds of the chapters, but the rest are readable and riveting.
This is a fundamental paradigm shift-an inflection point like those described in Andy Grove's riveting new book, Only the Paranoid Survive . The End of Money and the Struggle for Financial Privacy by Richard W. Rahn Former Chief Economist of the National Chamber of Commerce, Richard Rahn has peered deeply into the heated caldron of money, encryption, privacy, bandwith and bureaucracy and emerged with a stark and stormy vision of the future. This crisply written text foresees a concussive collision of new technologies and old institutions, such as banks and nations, debts and taxes, and a new world of web commerce on the other side. This book is a lucid and practical exposition of the optics state of the art by two protege's of Paul Green. Skip the denser math if you want and you still can deepen your knowledge of this incandescent field.