Data Storage Working Group

Neal Vines, Director of IT in the College of Agricultural Sciences, and I are co-chairing a new working group to explore common requirements and common solutions for data storage across Penn State. The group is composed of members from the College IT Directors and Campus IT Directors groups as well as the chair of the ITS ITANA storage working group (ITANA is the ITS architectural collaborative). We are developing three use cases to begin with: archival storage, storage of sensitive data, and e-science/research data storage, and extracting requirements from these. We will then work with ITANA storage to consider how we might address some of our common issues and look at possible central storage service offerings.