IT Infrastructure Architecture: Infrastructure Building Blocks and Concepts

by Sjaak Laan

For many decades, IT infrastructure has provided the foundation for successful application deployments. Yet, general knowledge of infrastructures is not widespread. Experience shows that software developers, system administrators, and project managers usually have little knowledge of the large influence IT infrastructures have on the performance, availability and security of software applications. This book explains the concepts, history, and implementation of a robust and balanced IT infrastructure. Although many of books can be found on individual infrastructure building blocks, this is the first book to describe all of them: datacenters, servers, networks, storage, virtualization, operating systems, and end user devices. Whether you need an introduction to infrastructure technologies, a refresher course, or a study guide for a computer science class, you will find that the presented building blocks and concepts provide a solid foundation for understanding the complexity of today’s IT infrastructures.

Genres: Business

Kindle Edition

Published November 1, 2011

Reviews

[Sam · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great book to read to make sure there are no knowledge gaps in your overall understanding of IT infrastructure architecture. I enjoyed the mention of older technologies like core memory, PDPs, IMPs, etc. I could only fault the book for one tiny thing, and that’s using “for instance” a lot. This book could easily have been titled IT Building Blocks.

[Roshan Singh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best book for IT Infrastructure

Very informative book. Can be recommended for both experts and beginners. But the technicalities cannot be all digested in one read, it has to be studied.

[Rob Amundson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really well put together overview of infrastructure.

[Damien Ball · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty informative

Informative if not older technology described. Gives a good overview of infrastructure necessary to run an enterprise worth a read

[Manisha · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed reading and knowing fundamentals of IT infrastructure, how it all starts. Although, we are taught similar stuff in IT Eng. or other courses with IT. But I needed a great deal of revision and knowledge about new technologies introduced. Moreover, this book gives footprint of IT set up. And it covers as much as possible about building blocks constituting It environment. I highly recommend the book to each who is interested in knowing about IT infrastructure.