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Ian Neil
Ian Neil
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Ian Neil

Ian Neil is one of the world's top trainers of Security+. He is able to break down information into manageable chunks so that people with no background knowledge can gain the skills required to become certified. He has recently worked for the US Army in Europe and designed a Security+ course that catered to people from all backgrounds (not just IT professionals), with an extremely successful pass rate. He is an MCT, MCSE, A+, Network+, Security+, CASP, and RESILIA practitioner that has worked with high-end training providers over the past 23 years and was one of the first technical trainers to train Microsoft internal staff when they opened their Bucharest Office in 2006.
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Understanding Cloud Storage Concepts

Cloud storage utilizes SAN for the virtual components used in a cloud network. A SAN is a hardware device that contains a large number of fast disks, such as Solid-State Drives (SSDs), and is isolated from the LAN as it has its own network servers. The disks are set up with some form of redundancy, such as RAID 5, so that the storage space is redundant. Each switch and storage system on the SAN must be interconnected, and the physical interconnections must support bandwidth levels that can adequately handle peak data activities. There are two connection types:

  • Fiber Channel: Fast but expensive, as it needs fiber channel switches and fiber cables, which are expensive.
  • iSCSi Connector: Runs Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) commands over Ethernet and can connect through normal Ethernet switches and still offer good speed. This is a much cheaper option. The servers that use SAN storage are diskless but use the SAN storage as if they...
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CompTIA Security+: SY0-601 Certification Guide - Second Edition
Published in: Dec 2020Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781800564244

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Ian Neil

Ian Neil is one of the world's top trainers of Security+. He is able to break down information into manageable chunks so that people with no background knowledge can gain the skills required to become certified. He has recently worked for the US Army in Europe and designed a Security+ course that catered to people from all backgrounds (not just IT professionals), with an extremely successful pass rate. He is an MCT, MCSE, A+, Network+, Security+, CASP, and RESILIA practitioner that has worked with high-end training providers over the past 23 years and was one of the first technical trainers to train Microsoft internal staff when they opened their Bucharest Office in 2006.
Read more about Ian Neil