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The
IASTED International Conference on
ADVANCES IN COMPUTER
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
~ ACST 2006 ~
January 23-25, 2006
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Future
Directions in Distributed Storage
Prof.
John Chandy
University of Connecticut, USA
john.chandy@uconn.edu
Abstract
In light of the importance of distributed storage, this
tutorial will introduce participants to new directions in
distributed storage, particularly the use of object-based
storage in clustered systems and wide area file systems
in large-scale systems. We will start with introduction
to the area of distributed storage and its history, and
then move into an in-depth discussion of object based storage,
including its current status as a technical standard. We
will then see how object based storage can be used as the
basis for the next generation file sharing systems in a
discussion of wide-area file systems. We will conclude with
the security implications of these systems.
Background
Knowledge Expected of Participants:
Rudimentary understanding of basic computer networks and
file systems.
Exposure to basics of cryptography.
Biography
of Instructor:
Prof. John A. Chandy is an Assistant Professor
of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University
of Connecticut. Previously he was Vice President of Engineering
at Sigma Storage and involved in the design of clustered
storage architectures. He was also co-founder and Chief
Technology Officer of both Here2Listen.com and iChange and
was involved in the design of tools for the online delivery
of psychotherapy and soft-skills training. Prof. Chandy
has been active in storage systems for over 15 years, having
worked on one of the first commercial RAID systems at Data
General, designing innovative RAID architectures in academia,
and architecting one of the first commercial cluster file
systems at Sigma Storage Corp. Prof. Chandy earned Ph.D.
and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University
of Illinois in 1996 and 1993, respectively, and a S.B. in
Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology in 1989. His current research areas are in
high-performance storage systems, distributed systems software
and architecture, and reconfigurable computing applications.
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