Week 13 – Presentations

This week, we had presented our Amazon Web Service case studies to professor Fusco and the class. The groups were broken down by twos on all three class days this week, with my group, Team 1, going on Friday.  My group selected the Benchling company’s case study because it sounded the most interesting. Benchling is a life sciences company that runs a database on their platform that is accessible by scientists across the globe in order to further their research. The powerpoints were around 10 to 20 minutes each and were all extremely interesting and helped broaden my knowledge of real world applications.

Here is an article I found that helped me understand Benchlings purpose when I was doing my research –

Benchling raises $14.5M to help streamline collaboration among scientists

Week 6 – Fiber Channel Storage Area Networks

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