The 1st and 2nd editions have been translated into English. The English translation is a winner of the Linux Journal Editors' Choice Award 2005 in the category of Best System Administration Book. It carries the recommended bookmark of the SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association). This book addresses an important topic for all administrators in medium to large networks. Today, the storage landscape of enterprises and organizations spans from data centers to the cloud and mobile devices. This book explains the fundamental techniques for data storage, including hard disk and flash systems, magnetic tape, file systems, and object storage, as well as transmission techniques such as Fibre Channel, iSCSI, InfiniBand, and storage virtualization. It describes how to apply these techniques and how they contribute to ensuring the resilience, adaptability, and scalability of data and applications.