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Lecture 6 Chapter 5 Part 2 Big Data Storage Concepts (4)

The document discusses the ideal characteristics of storage architecture, emphasizing the trade-offs between security, data sharing, performance, and scalability. It outlines the common storage architectures: Direct-attached Storage (DAS), Storage Area Networks (SANs), and Network-attached Storage (NAS), along with a new SAN file system. Additionally, it highlights a shift towards intelligent, self-managed storage devices that require more expressive interfaces, potentially based on storage objects.

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Lecture 6 Chapter 5 Part 2 Big Data Storage Concepts (4)

The document discusses the ideal characteristics of storage architecture, emphasizing the trade-offs between security, data sharing, performance, and scalability. It outlines the common storage architectures: Direct-attached Storage (DAS), Storage Area Networks (SANs), and Network-attached Storage (NAS), along with a new SAN file system. Additionally, it highlights a shift towards intelligent, self-managed storage devices that require more expressive interfaces, potentially based on storage objects.

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Big Data Storage Concepts

Lecture 6: Chapter 5 Part 2


Storage architecture
• An ideal storage architecture would provide strong security, data
sharing across platforms (i.e., operating systems), high
performance, and scalability in terms of the number of devices
and clients
• Today’s architectures force system designers to decide which of
these features is most important, as choosing an architecture
involves a trade-off
Storage architecture Cont.
• The three storage architectures in common use
today are:
• Direct-attached Storage (DAS)
• Storage Area Networks (SANs)
• Network-attached Storage (NAS)
• A fourth architecture, often called a SAN file
system, has recently been introduced in an attempt
to capture the features of both NAS and SANs
Storage architecture Cont.
I uploaded the journal article we discussed in the lecture

Mesnier, M., Ganger, G. R., & Riedel, E. (2003).


Object-based storage. IEEE Communications
Magazine, 41(8), 84-90
Storage today and trade -offs
• The trade-off in today’s architectures is therefore security and
cross-platform data sharing (files) vs. high performance (blocks)
• While files allow one to securely share data between systems, the
overhead imposed by a file server can limit performance. Yet,
increasing file serving performance by allowing direct client
access comes at the cost of security
• Building a scalable, high-performance, cross-platform, secure
data sharing architecture requires a new interface that provides
both the direct access nature of SANs and the data sharing and
security capabilities of NAS
Storage today and trade –offs cont.
• Recent industry and academic research suggests a shift in storage
technology, in which devices evolve from relatively unintelligent
and externally managed to intelligent, self-managed, and aware of
the storage applications they serve.
• However, creating such an intelligent device requires a more
expressive interface. Many in the industry believe that an interface
based on storage objects can be the answer

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