Draft Roadmap for StorageBackup Services

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Draft Roadmap for Storage/Backup Services
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Storage/Backup Services Working Group

• Steve Briney
• David Gerstenecker
• Craig Jackson
• Nancy Mansfield
• Al Marquardt
• Christine Gressley Ruppel

• Ken Spelke
• Ryan Thomas
• Chuck Thompson
• Allan Tuchman
• Melissa Woo

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Road to a Roadmap

• Storage/Backup Services Working Group
• CITES Architecture Planning Team
• CIO Roundtable
• Campus IT Professionals
• ???

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Overview

• Roadmap covers 4 general areas
• Data storage
• Data backup
• Collaborative space
• Education and policy

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Roadmap Recommendations

• Offer tiers of service one size does not fit
  all
• Move towards some level of centralization and
  consolidation
• Incorporate storage infrastructure requirements
  into future campus infrastructure planning
• Explore outsourcing, but cautiously

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Goals Data Storage

• Easy-to-use
• Easy-to-access
• Cost-effective
• Must address business needs
• Must provide appropriate levels of security and
  privacy
• Storage should appear as a unified pool to
  end-users

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Goals Data Backups

• Easy-to-use
• Cost-effective
• Appropriate for various classes of data and
  different business requirements
• Backups is considered the most critical area of
  the four in this roadmap

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Goals Collaborative Space

• Storage spaces should support collaboration
• Collaboration occurs between campus entities as
  well as between campus and non-campus entities

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Goals Education and Policy

• Provide education to facilitate communication and
  understanding of storage, backup concepts to both
  technical personnel and non-technical
  decision-makers
• Encourage development of policies and best
  practices for storage, backups

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Directions Data Storage

• Storage that is accessible from anywhere,
  supports multiple platforms, easy-to-use for
  end-users
• Implement improvements to CITES NetFiles
  reasonably achievable in 1-2 years
• Centralized NAS-like service to provide storage
  to depts/units
• Achievable in 1-3 years, given sufficient
  resources
• Storage appropriate for compliance with
  applicable rules and regulations
• Build onto existing and future storage services
• Storage that appears to end-users as a unified
  pool of storage
• Consider when planning future services and
  upgrades to existing services
• Institutional repository that is functionally
  integrated with campus-wide storage services
• Consider when planning services

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Directions Data Backups

• Remote Storage for both remote replication and
  disk-based backups
• Reasonably achievable in 1-2 years
• Enterprise quality, centralized data backup
  services at college and/or campus level
• Form working groups to develop recommendations
  and plans for implementation (1-2 years?)

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Directions Collaborative Space

• Storage space/services that facilitate
  collaboration among and between campus and
  non-campus entities
• Consider when building storage services
• Need appropriate authn/authz (identity and
  access management)
• Need flexibility to create groups from different
  combinations of roles/identities (group
  management)
• Need access by non-campus entities (federation
  and guest services)

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Directions Education Policy

• Education should be provided to both technical
  and non-technical personnel
• Should occur over next 2 years, including common
  terminology and communicating to non-technical
  decision-makers
• Best practices and policies for storage, backups
• Begin forming working groups over the next year