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Designing Storage Architectures for Preservation Collections

September 26-27, 2011
Washington, DC

The DSA meeting brought together technical and industry experts; LC IT and subject matter experts; government specialists with an interest in preservation; decision-makers from a wide range of organizations with digital preservation requirements; and recognized authorities and practitioners of digital preservation.

This year’s meeting focused on the following topics:

• Storage architectures related to power-aware technologies and impact on processing and storage requirements for digital preservation;
• Innovative trends in storage technologies.
  

Background Materials

• Agenda (PDF, 19KB)
• Background Reading (PDF, 21KB)
• "Neighborhood Watch" for Repository Quality Assurance paper (PDF, 510KB)
  Stephen Abrams, Patricia Cruse and John Kunze, University of California Curation Center, California Digital Library; David Minor, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego; Mike Smorul, University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
• Day One Word Cloud (PDF, 99KB)

Participant Presentations

Technology Overview

• Library of Congress Storage Environment (PDF, 159KB)
  Carl Watts, Library of Congress
• Designing Storage Architectures for Digital Preservation (PDF, 40KB)
  Henry Newman, Instrumental

Storage User Community

• Archive Storage Infrastructure at the Library of Congress, Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation (PDF, 513KB)
  Scott Rife, Library of Congress
• Media Archiving IT Challenges at the Library of Congress (PDF, 250KB)
  James Snyder, Library of Congress
• NDSA Preliminary Preservation Storage Survey Results (PDF, 73KB)
  Cory Snavely, University of Michigan and Trevor Owens, Library of Congress
• Neighborhood Watch for Repository Quality Assurance (PDF, 723KB)
  Stephen Abrams, California Digital Library
• From DIAMOND to Archive: MLB Preserving its Past for Maximum Mining in its Future (PDF, 3.92MB)
  Tab Butler, MLB Network
• New York Public Library (PDF, 310KB)
  Barbara Taranto, New York Public Library
• Scaling Full-text Search (PDF, 410KB)
  Cory Snavely, University of Michigan
• Duracloud: Cloud Storage Experiences (PDF, 575KB)
  Andrew Woods, Duracloud

Power-aware Storage Technologies

• Solid State Storage Technology: The beginning of a fundamental shift in computing (PDF, 184KB)
  Hal Woods, Hewlett Packard
• Pivot3 (PDF, 279KB)
  Bob Fernander and Bill Galloway, Pivot3
• Designing for Large Scale (PDF, 313KB)
  Dave Fellinger, DataDirect Networks
• Solid State Storage: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (PDF, 2.63MB)
  Mark Flournoy, STEC Inc.
• The Data Center Computer Platform (PDF, 878KB)
  Tim Murphy, SeaMicro
• The "Tech" tonic Shift (PDF, 199KB)
  Dale Wickizer, NetApp
• Pure Storage: Affordable High-Performance All-Flash Storage (PDF, 227KB)
  Ethan Miller, Pure Storage
• Flash Multiprotocol Storage and the End of Hard Drives in Primary Storage (PDF, 256KB)
  Bob Bramow for Thomas Isakovich, Nimbus

New Innovative Storage Technologies

• HDD-based Security and SMR Recorded HDDs (PDF, 949KB)
  Dave Anderson, Seagate Technology
• An Advanced Architecture for Preservation Challenges (PDF, 461KB)
  Constantin Scheder, Nirvana
• Splunk Overview (PDF, 12.98MB)
  John Topp, Splunk
• IBM BigSheets (PDF, 397KB)
  Sam Thompson, IBM
• Authenticating Cloud Storage with Distributed Credentials (PDF, 567KB)
  Chad Thibodeau, Cleversafe
• Making a Case for Out-of-Band File System Middleware For Digital Asset Management (PDF, 233KB)
  Jacob Farmer, Cambridge Computer
• Technology Trends (PDF, 574KB)
  R.B. Hooks, Oracle
• I/O Considerations in Big Data Analytics (PDF, 462KB)
  Marshall Presser, Greenplum

Perspectives

• Building Better Long-Term Archival Storage Systems (PDF, 684KB)
  Ethan Miller, University of California, Santa Cruz
• Modeling the Economics of LongTerm Storage (PDF, 288KB)
  David Rosenthal, LOCKSS

Information from the 2010 storage meeting can be found here.

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