Background
Jepsen, Thomas Charles was born on June 1, 1948 in Rockford, Illinois, United States. Son of William White and Ruth M. Jepsen.
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The worldwide market for SAN and NAS storage is anticipated to grow from US $2 billion in 1999 to over $25 billion by 2004. As business-to-business and business-to-consumer e-commerce matures, even greater demands for management of stored data will arise. With the rapid increase in data storage requirements in the last decade, efficient management of stored data becomes a necessity for the enterprise. A recent UC-Berkeley study predicts that 150,000 terabytes of disk storage will be shipped in 2003.Most financial, insurance, healthcare, and telecommunications institutions are in the process of implementing storage networks that are distributed to some degree. For these institutions, data integrity is critical, and they will spend much time and money on planning. One of the primary obstacles to implementing a storage network cited by enterprise IT managers is a lack of knowledge about storage networking technology and the specific issues involved in extending a Storage Area Network (SAN) or Network Attached Storage (NAS) over the Metropolitan Area Networks (MAN) or Wireless Area Networks (WAN)." Distributed Storage Networks: Architecture, Protocols and Management" addresses the "terminology gap" between enterprise network planners and telecommunications engineers, who must understand the transport requirements of storage networks in order to implement distributed storage networks. Jepsen comprehensively provides IT managers, planners, and telecommunications professionals with the information they need in order to choose the technologies best suited for their particular environment.This book addresses a hot topic that will become increasingly important in the coming years. It enables high-level managers and planners to make intelligent decisions about network needs. It includes example network configurations providing solutions to typical user scenarios. It is a fundamental resource for all network managers, planners and network design engineers, as well as telecommunications engineers and engineering, computer science, and information technology students.
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The role of the telegraph operator in the mid-nineteenth century was like that of today’s software programmer/analyst, according to independent scholar Tom Jepsen, who notes that in the “cyberspace” of long ago, male operators were often surprised to learn that the “first-class man” on the other end of the wire was a woman. Like the computer, the telegraph caused a technological revolution. The telegraph soon worked synergistically with the era’s other mass-scale technology, the railroad, to share facilities as well as provide communications to help trains run on time. The strategic nature of the telegraph in the Civil War opened opportunities for women, but tension arose as men began to return from military service. However, women telegraphers did not affect male employment or wage levels. Women kept their jobs after the war with support from industry — Western Union in particular — and because they defended and justified their role. “Although women were predominantly employed in lower-paying positions and in rural offices, women who persisted and made a career of the profession could work up to managerial or senior technical positions that, except for wage discrimination, were identical to those of their male counterparts,” writes Jepsen. “Telegraphy as an occupation became gendered, in the sense that we understand today, only after the introduction of the teletype and the creation of a separate role for women teletype operators.” My Sisters Telegraphic is a fresh introduction to this pivotal communications technology and its unsung women workers, long neglected by labor and social historians.
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Jepsen, Thomas Charles was born on June 1, 1948 in Rockford, Illinois, United States. Son of William White and Ruth M. Jepsen.
Bachelor, University Colorado, 1986.
Member technical staff Fujitsu Network Communications, Raleigh, 1996-2000, strategic marketing manager North Carolina, 2000-2001. Instructor North Carolina State University, 2002. Scholar in residence Pennsylvania History and Museum Commission, 2003.
Consultant Analysts International, since 2005.
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Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (senior member, medical technology policy committee), Association Computing Machinery, Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, National Coalition Indiana Scholars, North Carolina Symposium on Biotechnology and Bioinformatics (conference chair, 2004).
Married Marsha Ann Hamman, June 7, 1969. 1 child Hans.