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Keeping it Spinning: A Background Check on Virtual Storage Providers

Keeping it Spinning: A Background Check on Virtual Storage Providers. Anne Roach, AG ® , CG SM Information Commons Family History Library. How Important is Secure Storage?. Minnie and Bonnie Wagers. Robert and Charles Jacobs. Objectives.

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Keeping it Spinning: A Background Check on Virtual Storage Providers

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  1. Keeping it Spinning: A Background Check on Virtual Storage Providers Anne Roach, AG®, CGSM Information Commons Family History Library

  2. How Important is Secure Storage? Minnie and Bonnie Wagers

  3. Robert and Charles Jacobs

  4. Objectives 1. Determine the physical safety elements of virtual storage 2. Exhibit the need for virtual storage industry standards

  5. How secure is data stored online?

  6. Driving Factors and Background: • Springboard off of last year’s solutions • Millennium CD and “Keep it Spinning” • Preservation of genealogy • Correspondence, data, images, audio, video • Safety of data • Lack of industry standards and regulation • No government involvement at present • Future involvement?

  7. Virtual Storage Safety Criteria • Server ownership • Server redundancy • Location redundancy • Vendor redundancy • Tape library backup • Storage capacity • Monitoring system • Service to damaged equipment

  8. Virtual Storage Providers

  9. Virtual Storage Layers

  10. Participation • Out of 31 identified providers: • 5 were architects or software providers • 1 contained no direct contact information • 14 decided not to participate or respond • 3 had merged or gone out of business • 7 participated

  11. What about New FamilySearch?

  12. New FamilySearch Online Pedigree M9000 M9000 M8000 XP 12000 XP 12000 SL 8500 SL 8500 SL 500

  13. Sun Microsystems M9000 Servers

  14. Hewlett Packard XP12000 Storage Array

  15. StorageTek SL 8500 Tape Library

  16. New FamilySearch Online Pedigree • Full ownership of equipment • Mainframe-like servers, plus storage array • Simultaneously syncing data • 2 virtual tape libraries, 3 tape libraries • Location redundancy 2500 miles apart • Human redundant monitoring 24/7:365 • Estimated 6 minute annual downtime • 2.2 PB spinning with 10 PB tape backup

  17. Summary/Conclusion • Need for industry standard • Possible future Government involvement due to power use in data centers

  18. Charles Jacobs

  19. Questions? Anne Roach, AG®, CGSM Information Commons, Family History Library roacha@ldschurch.org

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