I'm attending WiscNet's MasStore event at the Pyle Center to discuss "shared large-scale multipurpose IP-accessible storage." It will include a with about fifty other state organizations how we can cooperatively aggregate storage resources to meet our data storage, backup, and recovery needs. This is something that has evolved over the past two years of work with the Critical Data Backup and Recovery working group (CDBR). Now that WiscNet has launched their "Grow Smart" initiative, bandwidth is not the critical limiter it was a year ago. GrowSmart is "unlimited network access at a fixed, multi-year cost."
The storage landscape has changed. Several vendors are going to present possible solutions today, and then the fifty or so attending WiscNet member organizations will ask questions. After the vendors are gone, the members will discuss how we can possibly use their services, and more importantly, each other, to solve our data backup needs.
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