Enterprise Class Mass Storage: Innovative Approaches to Disk-based Active Archive

This session will appeal to Data Center Managers and those that are interested in how high capacity storage technologies are evolving. The presentation builds from a discussion of the problems created by massive data growth and the argument that traditional approaches to data storage will not meet the demands of large enterprise datastores. Demands such long term data storage but with near instant access times (sec), “findability,” robust data and device integrity, scalability and with the flexibility to able transparent service of unpredictable activity patterns.

The presentation will focus on the innovative technologies that are enabling these next generation solutions that are increasingly becoming identified as a separate class of storage.

The presentation will conclude with a look to the future with a brief discussion on holographic storage and some interesting projects that are still in the academic domain.

Learning Objectives

Understand the challenges presented by massive datastores and how these challenges influence storage strategies and purchase decisions.
Understand how next generation storage architectures are designed to meet the challenges of today’s active archive applications such as delivering acceptable QoS, i.e. access times, latency, bandwidth, scalability and solution longevity.
Know what questions to ask when considering the purchase of these massively dense solutions.