NooBaa is a highly customizable and dynamic data gateway for objects, providing data services such as caching, tiering, mirroring, dedup, encryption, compression, over any storage resource including S3, GCS, Azure Blob, Filesystems, etc.
The goal is to simplify data flows for admins by connecting to any of the storage silos from private or public clouds, and providing a single scalable data services, using the same S3 API and management tools. NooBaa allows full control over data placement with dynamic policies per bucket or account.
The CERN Tape Archive (CTA) is the archival storage system for the custodial copy of all physics data at CERN. CTA is implemented as the tape back-end to EOS. EOS+CTA is the CERN archival solution for LHC Run–3 and beyond.
For a general overview of CTA, see our Publications and Presentations. There is also some general Development and Systems Integration Documentation which complements what is on this site.
EOS is an open-source storage software solution to manage Exabyte storage for the CERN Large Hadron Collidor LHC. Core of the implementation is the XRootD framework providing a feature-rich remote access protocol.
The eternal loathing between Storage and Networking professionals has manifested into a podcast when I am joined by well known storage bloggers to debate our dysfunctional family relationship.
Thanks to Martin Glassborow from Storagebod and Chris Evans from Architecting IT for taking the time to talk about networking and storage.