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Tiered Storage and Archiving: Best Practices for Data Life Cycle Management and Long-term Digital Preservation at Duke Univ. - 12/16

Thursday, December 16, 2010 from 12:45 PM to 4:00 PM (ET)

Durham, NC


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Tiered Storage and Archiving: Best Practices for Data Life Cycle Management and Long-term Digital Preservation

Hosted by Duke University - Durham, NC


This seminar explores the problems and solutions associated with managing data storage as capacities grow and data ages.  It does not focus on specific products or specific vendors.  Rather it focuses on the problems that need to be solved and the underlying architectures of a variety of solutions.  Examples are drawn from multiple industries: scientific research, medical imaging, academic libraries, manufacturing, and general office computing.


Major Themes: 

  • Traditional data storage management technologies are not keeping pace with the growth of storage capacities. 
  • The bigger they are, the harder they fall.  How do you back up ever-growing storage repositories and ensure the integrity of data over long periods of time? 
  • Sometimes it makes sense to tier storage such that storage performance and storage capacity can scale independently of one another.  Sometimes it is less expensive and simpler to to settle into a single tier for all needs. 
  • Redundancy models need to change as capacities continue to grow.  Traditional redundancy models look great on paper, but can be very expensive and can even lead to an increased chance of data loss.

Some of the topics covered in the lecture:

  • File System Virtualization
  • Archival File Systems
  • Object Storage Systems
  • File Stubbing and its associated challenges
  • MAID - Massive Array of Idle Drives
  • SSD - Solid State Disk
  • Data Replication Methods
  • Tiered Storage for Databases and Email
  • Eliminating Tape Media
  • Embracing Tape Media
  • Deduplication
  • Compensating for Silent Data Corruption

Agenda:

 

Date

December 16, 2010

12:45 - 1:00 PM

Doors Open/Registration Begins

1:00 - 2:00PM

Lecture

2:00 - 2:15PM

Break

2:15 - 3:00 PM

Lecture

3:00 - 4:00 PM

Q&A – Project Discussions

 

Intended Audience: System administrators running day-to-day operations as well as systems architects and IT managers. This tutorial is technical in nature, but it does not address command-line syntax or the operation of specific products or technologies. Rather, the focus is on general architectures and various approaches to scaling in both performance and capacity. Since storage networking technologies tend to be costly, there is some discussion of the relative cost of different technologies and of strategies for managing cost and achieving results on a limited budget.

 

Click here for Directions and Parking Information. The closest parking garage is at the Bryan Center for $2/hr.

General Questions: Please feel free to contact Amina at amina@saneducation.com

When

Thursday, December 16, 2010 from 12:45 PM to 4:00 PM (ET)

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Where

Duke University
William R. Perkins Library - Room 217 (West Campus)
411 Chapel Drive
Durham, NC 27708




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