| The aims of this Task Force are: - to provide a forum for gathering expertise, exchanging and promoting ideas, experience and knowledge related to next-generation/augmented data storage technology, delivery models and services;
- to identify, and promote the use of commontechniquescommon techniques, technology, procedures and best practices in the field of data storage and data management that are relevant to the research and education community;
- to coordinate, support and - where possible - collaborate on the development, evaluation, deployment and maintenance of storage services and applications for the benefit of academic community and NRENs;
- to address the data privacy issues in storage systems (especially in cloud storage) by liaising with the TERENA CISO GÉANT SIG-ISM group;
- to address storage systems and identity federations for transparent access to NREN’s storage services, applications and clouds; liaising with TF-EMC2REFEDS;
- to accommodate the technical discussions on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) related initiatives taken up by NRENs interested in computing, storage and network resource virtualisation visualization and management;
- to liaise with SNIA and other industrial stakeholders and communities and projects such as GÉANT, Internet2, APAN, EGI, EUDAT, CERN, Helix-Nebula as well as individual developers and researchers.
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