Research report 2011 - Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG)
Challenges of modern storage management
Authors
Eckhard Handke; Reinhard Sippel
Departments
Arbeitsgruppe "IT-Infrastruktur" (AG-Leiter: Dr. Eckhard Handke)
Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG)
Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG)
Summary
The ever-increasing flood of data in the scientific realm is a constant challenge for storage concepts. This article describes the GWDG's storage network and global file system with integrated tape archiving. This combination makes it possible to provide the institutes with fast, fail-safe storage, that can be expanded at any time, implemented using up-to-date technology.