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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT size=2>I'd like to alert you to the availability of a
tutorial book that might be of interest to this community:
<STRONG>Storage, data, and information systems </STRONG>by John Wilkes,
Christopher Hoover, Beth Keer, Pankaj Mehra, Alistair Veitch, HP Labs, 5th
edition, 2008. ISBN </FONT></FONT><FONT size=3>978-1424317318 or
1424317312.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT size=2>It's a short ~100 page book that some colleagues
and I wrote to introduce storage systems to a smart lay audience (HP's board of
directors!). We believe it might also be a useful introductory text for an
undergrad class. And it's only $14.95 :-). As one reviewer
said:</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>A concise and accessible description of storage and
information systems, filling a large gap in reference material for this
critical topic area. <BR><EM>--Professor Greg Ganger, Director, Parallel Data
Lab, Carnegie Mellon University</EM></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT size=2>You can get a copy from Amazon: <A
href="http://www.amazon.com/Storage-data-information-systems-Wilkes/dp/1424317312">http://www.amazon.com/Storage-data-information-systems-Wilkes/dp/1424317312<FONT
size=2></FONT></A> <FONT size=2>(Don't worry if Amazon says "temporarily
out of stock" - that just means they have asked us for some more copies, and the
copies are on their way to Amazon's warehouse ... you can still go
ahead and order it.)</FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>Comments and feedback welcome!<BR>
john wilkes</FONT><FONT size=2></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>