Trying to Stay Afloat in Today's Ever Expanding Storage Pools

Abstract

Bob Trotter, University of Georgia/University System of Georgia (USG)

We support the unix hardware used in with the Digital Library of Georgia (DLG), Media Archives and Peabody Collection, and the Russell Political Research Library. All of these departments have one or more digitization projects going on. The DLG has been digitizing images for years, and has, for year and a half, started digitizing newspapers from our Georgia Newspapers microfilm collection. The Media department has a video digitization project ongoing. It is our job to come up with the best way to store and preserve these collections with increasingly fewer fiscal resources. This session will describe our efforts on this score, and briefly will also go into some of the different architectures available, such as SAN, NAS, ZFS, HSM, and SAM-FS. I also will take a brief look at a few of the many companies offering storage solutions.