INET4032: Systems I: Enterprise Storage and Protection

Information is one of the most valuable commodities of the 21st century. This course deals with the proper care and handling of enterprise data, whether the "enterprise" is a large multinational corporation, a family home, or something in between. Topics include storage network architecture and storage system design. We will examine data storage technology; local, network, and distributed storage; storage history; data protection policy and implementation (including redundancy, replication, backup, and archive storage); security; compression and encryption; and emerging technologies like Big Data, Cloud storage, AWS, Google, and vCloud Air. prereq: Fundamental understanding of an operating system such as Microsoft Windows, Linux, or Apple OSX, in the areas of file systems, I/O, computer architecture, and basic administration.

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