Storage Futures

by Steve Sicola (COMPAQ)

Tuesday 14 May 2002, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

Given that today's HEP experiments generate enormous volumes of data - several hundred TB of data per year in the case of COMPASS, rising to several PB per year at the LHC - storage is one of the key areas that must be carefully tracked. This talk will address some of the main questions regarding the future of storage, including - Versa Store in reality: are there any products in development? - EVA next generation with a roadmap - DRM in Enterprise Virtual Array - SAN Management in future and the (possible) connection to OpenView - What kind of hardware exists in the lab today? What is planned? - Future SAN Architecture McData/Brocade in the same SAN - OpenSAN. - Backup incl. server less backup/restore. - NAS in a SAN - Disk caching machines - Infiniband - Disk versus tape BIO Stephen J. Sicola is Technical Director for Compaq, StorageWorks. He has twenty-one years experience within the storage array business. He currently holds 10 patents with 20 other patents pending in the areas of hardware, software, and packaging design. Steve graduated from Stanford University with a BS in Electrical Engineering '79, and an MS in Computer Architecture '93.