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 common 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 GÉANT SIG-ISM group;
- to address storage systems and identity federations for transparent access to NREN’s storage services, applications and clouds; liaising with REFEDS;
- to accommodate the technical discussions on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) related initiatives taken up by NRENs interested in computing, storage and network resource 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.
The proposed activities are as follows
| Activities | Tasks |
|---|---|
Forum for gathering expertise, exchanging and promoting ideas, experience and knowledge related to next-generation, data storage technologies and architectures, delivery models, services and applications: | a. Technology watch for commercial and open source storage technologies: including data centre, clustered and distributed storage systems and solutions. b. Overview of (national) storage activities and deployments: gathering and publishing (on the wiki and possibly in blogs) the information on projects, activities and deployments of storage systems and services. c. On-demand micro-collaboration on ad-hoc well-defined storage topics that facilitates the sharing of knowledge and workload among individuals for the benefit of their home organizations. Led by GÉANT |
Support for the NRENs’ initiatives related to storage infrastructure, services and applications development, evaluation, deployment and maintenance: | a. Evaluation, testing and (possibly) development of scalable and flexible data storage and management systems (Software Defined Storage) following the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) delivery model or objects/cloud storage model. Led by: PSNC/ACOnet b. Collecting and publishing cookbooks and best-practices on cost-effective, reliable storage system design, evaluation and tendering. Establish and maintain liaisons with commercials. Led by: SWITCH/CARNet |
| Security and trust in storage systems: legal and technical implications of directives, laws and security best-practices: | a. Liaising with REFEDS on access federations for storage services. Led by: BELNET b. Addressing the security models in storage systems. Liaise with the SIG-ISM; considering the legal implications of EU directives, national laws and recommendations provided by security organizations (ENISA, NIST) related to data privacy and trust, data handling, transfer, processing etc. Led by: GÉANT |
The TF-Storage 4th Terms of Reference can be downloaded from here.
The former TF-Storage pages can be found at https://www.terena.org/activities/tf-storage/
Facts
This is the 4th mandate of the TF-Storage
1 April 2014 - 30 March 2016
The TF-Storage task force is co-chaired by
- Maciej Brzezniak (PSNC)
- Peter Stefan (NIIF/HUNGARNET)
Non-exclusive list of active TF participants are
AARnet, ACOnet, ARNES, Belnet, CARNet, CSC/Funet,
CESNET, GRNET, HEAnet, NIIF, NORDUnet, PSNC,
RedIRIS, SUNET, SURFnet, SWITCH, UNINETT, CERN,
Cisco, Desy, IBM, FORTH-ICS, ownCloud, RAL, T-Systems