IBM Israel Research Seminars

Data storage systems have become the backbone of a new era, whereby economic output and creative endeavors are dependent on knowledge-based activities and on organizations, governments, and individuals possessing powerful tools to create, access, and manage information. In spite of the profound changes that information technologies have already exerted on society, the data storage systems and devices that enabled those changes are in an early stage of their development. The Information Storage Industry Consortium (INSIC) has formulated a comprehensive Research Roadmap on Data Storage Devices and Systems (DS2). The INSIC DS2 Research Roadmap addresses six areas of systems’ research:

· Application-aware Storage, which refers to the introduction of application context within a storage device and in aggregates of storage devices.
· Active Storage Devices, which refers to issues of distributed data processing at the storage device or assemblies of devices.
· Long-term Storage, which includes the issues associated with the perpetual preservation of digital content, archiving, and intelligent backup.
· Pervasive Storage, which includes the storage research issues in a pervasive computing infrastructure, such as ubiquitous digital content creation.
· Security and Privacy, which includes the security issues associated with storage devices and storage networks.
· Autonomic Storage, which includes self-managed storage and, in general, self-perpetuating, internally-consistent storage systems.

The presentation will discuss the pre-competitive research opportunities stemming from the INSIC DS2 Roadmap.

Bio
Giora Tarnopolsky, D.Sc., is data-storage-systems consultant to INSIC, the Information Storage Industry Consortium, managing the efforts to launch INSIC’s pre-competitive storage systems research programs. Giora organized and led the INSIC 2004 Data Storage Devices and Systems (DS2) Workshop, held in April 2004 at the Center for Magnetic recording research, UC San Diego. INSIC’s DS2 Roadmap was published in January 2005. Since 2001, he leads TarnoTek (www.tarnotek.com), a data storage systems & technology and management consultancy, and lectures frequently on digital storage topics. His earlier career includes managing systems integration efforts at Seagate Technology, efforts culminating on the demonstration of 100 Gb/in2 in longitudinal recording in 2001. At Seagate, he was Executive Director of Advanced Recording Technology. He is Co-editor in Chief of the 2005 Intermag Conference, Nagoya, Japan, and a contributor to Magnetics Business & Technology magazine. Giora is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a member of the American Physical Society and of IDEMA. A graduate of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he holds a doctorate in Physics from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa.