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November 2008 MEETING
Archiving Digital Media -- What’s An Archive (And Do I Need One)?
- C. Jason Mancebo, Senior Manager for Archive, Compliance, Storage Efficiency and Security, NetApp
- 6:30 PM social hour with refreshments
- 7:30 PM presentation
Program:
Whether you work for a tiny company or a giant corporation, a small TV station or a large national network, an elementary school or a huge university, a tiny clinic or a giant hospital chain, "the stuff" keeps piling up: raw video footage, finished shows, metadata, and computer files of all kinds no one dares delete, along with mountains of old analog tapes and physical paper files and images, all needing digitization and cataloging.
The sheer volume of the digital "stuff" we think we have to hang onto forever is growing exponentially &em; and maybe overwhelmingly! Since we can't or won't throw away assets that someday might be needed for a crucial project, digital storage keeps getting cheaper and more reliable—how do we organize, search, and find that one needle whose size stays the same while the hay stack keeps growing?
Jason can help: he'll explain what can be done to control the ever-expanding size of archives while lowering costs and improving access and usage. As data volume and usage demands skyrocket, storage efficiency technologies such as deduplication, lossless compression, and thin provisioning can help control growth by reducing the amount of data stored, while RAID-DP provides the highest in double failure protection.
What kinds of archival "bit buckets" should we use for maximum safety, data security, accessibility and ease of use, and cost? Spinning disks (hard drives), digital tape, or solid-state memory? Arrayed how? And where? Should we use off-site storage at data centers located in, say, salt mines in the Midwest? How do we easily and reliably access remote sites? How safe and cost-effective are shared resources vs. keeping data locally?
Managing physical volume makes up only a part of the story. As the "signal-to-noise ratio" of the mountain of data vs. the nuggets we're looking for continues to drop, we need more effective search technologies to find quickly exactly what we're looking for. What's new in "search" and what breakthroughs might we expect in the next five years to help us paw through our ever-growing pile of "digital stuff"?
Presenter & Meeting Organizer: C. Jason Mancebo As NetApp's Senior Manager for Archive, Compliance, Storage Efficiency and Security, C. Jason Mancebo specializes in storage, media asset management, archiving, and backups. His work at Silicon Graphics Digital Media Division included developing solutions based on SGI’s VOD, NVOD, and ITV video servers, digital asset management workflow, and storage and graphics solutions for telco, educational, broadcast, and post-production. In the days before widespread WWW access, he designed the world's first proxy video network allowing ad-agency clients to review compressed-video footage via ISDN networks. Jason currently serves as the SMPTE-SF Secretary-Treasurer.Welcome:
SMPTEsf welcomes members and friends to attend without charge.
Live Webcast
If you can't physically make it to Jason's presentation, no problem: His talk will be available live via WebEx and later on www.SMPTEsf.org as an on-demand stream.To join the meeting live on Wednesday, November 19, 2008 starting at 7:25 PM Pacific Standard Time, please log on to the NetApp WebEx account at http://netapp-meeting.webex.com and copy and paste the meeting number 925866621 in the box; click on “Join Now.” The meeting password is smpte1 .
Location:
NetAppBuilding 10
1250 Crossman Drive
Sunnyvale, CA 94089