Tag: STORAGE ARRAY

Week 13 – Presentations

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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 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 5 – RAID and Storage Systems

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During our fifth week of class we continued to talk about RAID as well as started delving into intelligent storage systems. The four parts of an intelligent system as we learned, are: the front end components, cache, back end components, and physical disks. In addition to learning about the Intelligent storage systems, we learned Logical unit number (LUN). We have now added a LUN into our system which has made it even more complex. We also reviewed the answers to mini case 1 and thanks to this review I feel that I now have a pretty good understanding of RAID.

This article cleared up a couple of the questions I had on LUN and why it exists.-

https://www.computerweekly.com/answer/What-is-a-LUN-and-why-do-we-need-storage-LUNs