<blockquote what="official NYLUG announcement"> From: Sunny Dubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 07:25:09 -0400 Subject: [nylug-announce] New York Linux User's Group Meeting 6/29: Evan Marcus on Enterprise Archiving
June 29th, 2005 Wednesday 6:30PM-8:00PM IBM Headquarters Building 590 Madison Avenue at 57th Street 12th Floor, home to the IBM Linux Center of Competency ** RSVP Instructions ** You must R.S.V.P. for *EVERY* meeting. Register at http://rsvp.nylug.org/ Check in with photo ID at the lobby for badge and room number. Evan Marcus (Archivas) -on- Enterprise Archiving Due largely to new governmental regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA, organizations are expected to maintain and protect critical fixed-content data, such as medical records, corporate financial data, recordings of customer support phone calls, and email for long periods of time, often 20 or 30 years or more. Traditionally, the method for preserving data for such long periods of time has either been to store the data online on large NAS or RAID disk arrays or on magnetic tapes or optical disks, which can then be stored offsite. Traditionally, storing the data online is very expensive; even at today's prices, it can cost over $100/gb to store data on NAS or RAID arrays. Tapes and optical disks are less expensive, but are prone to being lost, stolen, or damaged (as has happened recently in several widely publicized cases). It is also very difficult to search off-line (and off-site) media for specific data when lawyers demand all email about a particular customer from five years ago, and give you 72 hours to deliver it. And neither of these solutions are designed for long-term storage, protection, and rapid retrieval of data. A third method of storing fixed-content data is in a CAS or Content Addressable Storage system, where data is stored in an encrypted form, based on a hash key. Data can only be retrieved with the original application, and there is no way to search the data. A newer solution has emerged that is far less expensive than storing the data on expensive NAS or RAID arrays, and that will still keep data online so that it never leaves the network, and can be easily searched and retrieved quickly, since it can be stored in native form. The solution is an archive cluster, built from a collection of inexpensive commodity systems and SATA disks. The hardware is arranged into a cluster so that the failure of any disk or system (pretty much inevitable when inexpensive hardware is used), or of two or three components at the same time, does not affect the safety and availability of the data. Data is stored online, is accessible through standard interfaces, and is totally searchable. Costs can be as low as $12-$15 per GB, depending on the size of the archive, and clusters can scale to dozens of petabytes or more. About Evan Marcus Evan joined Archivas, Inc. in 2005 as a Senior Systems Engineer in the Office of the CTO. Evan has more than 20 years of experience in Unix systems. Before joining Archivas, he spent 8 years at VERITAS Software, as a systems engineer, speaker, and author. He also spent 5 years at Sun Microsystems and 2=BD years at Fusion Systems, where he worked to bring the first high availability software applications for SunOS and Solaris to market. He also spent 2 years as a system administrator on the equities trading floor of a multinational trading institution. Evan is the co-author of "Blueprints for High Availability" (2nd Ed: Sept. 2003, John Wiley & Sons), and co-author and co-editor of "The Resilient Enterprise" (2002, VERITAS Publications). He is a well-regarded and popular speaker on the design of highly available and disaster resilient systems, and fixed-content storage archives. Swag (Give Away) - During the meeting... unusually terrific swag of non-predetermined origin will be given out to all attendees at the regular meeting for free as usual. Stammtisch After the meeting ... Join us around 8:30pm or so at TGI Friday's, located at 677 Lexington Avenue and 56th Street, second floor. Northeast corner. Please see our home page at http://www.nylug.org for the HTMLized version of this announcement, our archives, and a lot of other good stuff. ______________________________________________________________________ Hire expert Linux talent by posting jobs here :: http://jobs.nylug.org nylug-announce mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nylug.org/mailman/listinfo/nylug-announce </blockquote> Distributed poC TINC: Jay Sulzberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Corresponding Secretary LXNY LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization. http://www.lxny.org _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
