TF-Storage concluded on 1 April 2016. The community decided to change the scope and re-charter towards cloud platform/software stacks.
Visit the new SIG-CISS (Cloudy Interoperable Software Stacks) page...
Activities | Tasks |
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Forum for gathering expertise, exchanging and promoting ideas, experience and knowledge related to next-generation, data storage technologies and architectures, delivery models, services and applications: | a. Technology watch for commercial and open source storage technologies: including data centre, clustered and distributed storage systems and solutions. Led by: PSNC b. Overview of (national) storage activities and deployments: gathering and publishing (on the wiki and possibly in blogs) the information on projects, activities and deployments of storage systems and services. Led by: HEAnet c. On-demand micro-collaboration on ad-hoc well-defined storage topics that facilitates the sharing of knowledge and workload among individuals for the benefit of their home organizations. Led by GÉANT |
Support for the NRENs’ initiatives related to storage infrastructure, services and applications development, evaluation, deployment and maintenance: | a. Evaluation, testing and (possibly) development of scalable and flexible data storage and management systems (Software Defined Storage) following the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) delivery model or objects/cloud storage model. Led by: PSNC/ACOnet b. Collecting and publishing cookbooks and best-practices on cost-effective, reliable storage system design, evaluation and tendering. Establish and maintain liaisons with commercials. Led by: SWITCH/CARNet |
Security and trust in storage systems: legal and technical implications of directives, laws and security best-practices: | a. Liaising with REFEDS on access federations for storage services. Led by: Belnet b. Addressing the security models in storage systems. Liaise with the SIG-ISM; considering the legal implications of EU directives, national laws and recommendations provided by security organizations (ENISA, NIST) related to data privacy and trust, data handling, transfer, processing etc. Led by: GÉANT |
The TF-Storage 4th Terms of Reference can be downloaded from here.
The former TF-Storage pages can be found at https://www.terena.org/activities/tf-storage/
4th mandate of the TF-Storage
1 April 2014 - 30 March 2016
The TF-Storage task force is chaired by
Community
~200 people on the mailing list
Non-exclusive list of active TF participants are
AARnet, ACOnet, ARNES, Belnet, CARNet, CSC/Funet,
CESNET, GRNET, HEAnet, NIIF, NORDUnet, PSNC,
RedIRIS, SUNET, SURFnet, SWITCH, UNINETT, CERN,
Cisco, Desy, IBM, FORTH-ICS, ownCloud, RAL, T-Systems