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Active Archiving: Data Migration, Self-Healing Storage, and Long-term Digital PreservationWednesday, February 8, 2012 from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM (ET)Philadelphia, PA |
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ACTIVE ARCHIVING
Data Migration, Self-Healing Storage, and Long-term Digital Preservation
This half-day event consists of three lectures addressing the most relevant topics in active archiving and data life cycle management.
The program is offered for FREE to IT end users. There is a nominal fee to attend for those who do not work as an end user of information technology. If you are not sure if you are entitled to attend for free, please email us and we will clarify.
Who is organizing this event?
This event is brought to you by a member of the Active Archive Alliance, an industry trade group that facilitates discussion of best practices for archiving and data life cycle management. Active archiving refers to taking a proactive approach to digital preservation, disposition, and capacity management.
Lecture content is provided in part by the data storage training department at Cambridge Computer.
Who is the intended audience and will it be worth your time?
The lecture materials are intended for a hands-on technical audience: system admins, storage admins, disaster recovery planners, data center managers, etc. We expect that you have a working knowledge of storage, backup system principles, networks, and servers. The course content is particularly useful to those who are responsible for system architecture and for general IT strategy.
Do I have to come for the whole day or can I come for just part?
The day is broken into discrete lectures specifically so that you can come and go as you please and still get value out of the event. Please feel free to arrive late or leave early.
General Questions: Please feel free to contact Alena at alena@cambridgecomputer.com
Note: Just to clarify, The Drexel Conference Center at the University Club is located on the top of MacAlister Hall. This is on the south side of the streeet between 32 & 33 St on Chesnut. Enter Creese Student Center then take right into MacAlister Hall.
At the end of the hallway, please take the elevator to the 6th Floor.
Agenda
| Start | End | Session Description |
| 9:00 | 9:30 | Doors Open - Registration - Breakfast |
| 9:30 | 11:00 |
Industry Trends: Object Storage, The Cloud, and the Latest Innovations in Data Protection and Self-healing The hype surrounding cloud computing has spilled over into the storage industry, inspiring tremendous innovation in the fields of object storage and large scale file management. Conventional file storage technologies (enterprise NAS systems) cannot scale limitlessly, not to mention that they are too rigid to expand and contract with the ebb and flow of the cloud. The cloud demands a whole new class of file systems and storage management approaches. As luck would have it, the problems being tackled in the name of cloud storage are applicable to large scale storage management in private facilities. In other words, these innovations are relevant regardless of whether one ever plans to store data in the cloud. This session examines the basic principles of object-based storage and the challenges inherent in growing large storage systems. We discuss the limitations of current architectures, the slow death of conventional RAID technology, and give examples of existing solutions that leverage next generation object storage models. |
| 11:00 | 11:15 | Break |
| 11:15 | 12:00 |
Media Costs and Reliability and the Rebirth of Tape as Archival Media In recent years, tape has emerged as the clear, economical choice for disaster recovery, backup, active archive and offline, long-term data archives. Organizations are shifting plans to keep, increase or incorporate tape in their long-term storage environments. This session will cover: 1) Backup vs Archive 2) New developments in software applications to utilize tape for active unstructured, file data archives; 2) Evolutions in automated libraries to proactively perform data integrity validation on tape; 3) Enterprise case studies illustrating the shift to tape for data center consolidation, offload primary storage, save data center space and meet “Green Data Center” initiatives. |
| 12:00 | 1:00 | Lunch Break |
| 1:00 | 2:00 |
Life Cycle Management and Data Migration: Comparative Methods for the Automation of Tiered Storage The big challenge in data life cycle management is that of enabling users to find their files after the files have been migrated to another storage tier or storage device. There are many common approaches including stub files, shortcuts, symbolic links, virtual file systems, global file systems, and mutli-tier NAS system. This session looks at the various approaches and explains their relative strengths and weaknesses. Examples are drawn from multiple industries: scientific research, medical imaging, academic libraries, manufacturing, and general office computing. |
Parking Info: Visitors can park at the Drexel Parking Garage (Lot G) located on the southeast corner of 34th and Market Streets, with the vehicle entrance in the rear at 34th and Ludlow Streets. The Drexel Parking Garage uses the self-serve pay-by-space system and the rate is $12. After parking your car in the garage, payment can be made at the kiosk in the Parking Garage Building's lobby by entering the parking space number and selecting from the kiosk's menu prompts.
When & Where
Drexel University - The University Club
33rd & Chestnut Street
Philadelphia,
PA 19104
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM (ET)
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