Tag: INFORMATION STORAGE

Week 14 – Review and Test 2

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In our final week of class for IST 423, we began with chapter 14 in an effort to finish learning all material that will be on the exam this Friday. On Wednesday we had a review where Dr.Fusco essential just clicked through the review powerpoint and asked everyone if they had any questions. I did not find this to be a review, moreover it seemed an exclamation by professor to spite the few students who had not attended class for the majority of the semester. Friday is the exam and I am confident I will earn a score that will allow me to start my career next month on time. Thank you for giving this class your best effort this semester Dr. Fusco, there was many real-world examples that I appreciated.

https://www.konstantinfo.com/blog/why-multi-tenancy-application-architecture-matters/

Week 12 – Backup Agents and The Cloud

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This week we have been focused on learning the ins and outs of cloud computing. Businesses in todays world are taking full advantage of cloud computing technology to boost business functionality and progress. Cloud computing makes vendors and users have an easier experience of utilizing softwares, infrastructures and applications they may not have had the chance to before. Infrastructure-as-a-service, Platform-as-a-service, and Software-as-a-service are the three main models of cloud computing. All three have their role in creating ease to resources they may not have had before. Cloud computing has in some ways taken over society and is a main driver of many organizations today.

Here is this interesting web page I found that helps outline some backup options in todays world –

https://www.techsoup.org/support/articles-and-how-tos/backup-exec-agents-and-options

Week 11 – Backup and Archive

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The world is a volatile and dangerous place so in this week of class we learned about backup and archive. The lecture consisted of learning of numerous backup techniques, the reasoning behind backup and other backup topics such as: Disaster recovery, operational recovery, and archive. We also learned that unfortunately technology is not perfect and with certain hardware, crashes can be common.

https://www.bullguard.com/bullguard-security-center/pc-security/computer-threats/backup-of-data-files-why-it-is-important.aspx

This article from bullguard goes over some of the most common problems facing the protection and safety of your data and applies our learning from class.

Week 6 – Fiber Channel Storage Area Networks

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Week 6 in IST 423 had a very broad range of topics from an intro to drivers for IP SAN and began learning Fiber Channel Storage Area Networks and related concepts of this module like block-level storage virtualization and EMC Connectrix. We Then went over topics such as iSCSI and gateways. At an internship of mine two summers ago I helped some of the IT officers with data duplication and a modern data infrastructure so this lecture was one that really clicked for me.

Some additional reading I did on Fiber Channel SAN –

https://searchstorage.techtarget.com/tip/The-anatomy-of-a-SAN-Fibre-Channel-SAN-explained

While doing my reading and skimming I also found this recent article –

https://www.networkcomputing.com/data-centers/sinking-fibre-channel-san

 

Week 4 – LAMP and Virtualization

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Even though this week was brief, it was plentiful in objectives to accomplish. In class we started learning about data centers work and how virtualization plays a key role in them. At the end of the week we added to our LAMP stack, we started an instance and continued following each step. Additionally, we discussed RAID and its use cases in the industry that RAID would be used for. Before I came to the lecture, I thought of RAID as just arrays of supersized external hard drives, I know now they are a tool that protects data. Below I included a short Youtube video that simplifies the concept into the essentials.

Week 2- Chapter 1, Introduction to Info-Storage

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In our second week of IST 423, we learned about virtualisation and information storage being immensely complicated. Virtualising a database will allow an organisation to make use of the Database as a service without having to get another third-party vendor. By doing this it will give you an advantage of adopting a model that will reduce redundancy, increase efficiency, and also maintain coverage. I found some interesting case studies at the link below that talk more about the real life circumstances this information is used and is a critical factor in major corporations computing solutions.

https://www.infobeans.com/verticals/storage-virtualization