Large Scale Centralized Managed Storage Directions Workshop Presentations

Report out of storage survey results

html ppt Overview and Storage Survey Results (Kitty Bridges, University of Michigan)

Framing the discussion: definitions, emerging technologies, policy, approaching storage from an architectural POV, etc.

pdf The Storage Lay of the Land (Ron Thielen, University of Chicago)

Supplementary documents:

doc Scalable Enterprise Storage NAS Gateway Appliances (Karl Lewis, University of Michigan)

Case study: library archive storage

html ppt MBooks: digital archival storage for the University of Michigan Library collections (Corey Snavely, University of Michigan)

Case study: research storage - lots of small files (as in genomics), lots of big files (as in astronomy, physics)

html ppt Small File File Systems (Jim Pepin, USC)

html ppt Research Computing Storage (Dennis Cromwell, Indiana University)

Case study: tiered storage architecture, virtualization

pdf Backup Implementation Proposal (Dennis Cromwell, Indiana University)

pdf Storage Virtualization (Ron Thielen, University of Chicago)