storage Archive

  • Defining institutional data storage requirements

    Defining institutional data storage requirements

    Posted on 18 March 2013 by jonathan.rans | From DCC
    Institutions developing infrastructure in support of research data management are engaging with a whole range of issues, both cultural and technical. One that stands out as a clear priority is that of research data storage, both for “live” ...

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  • TMTOWTDI: Three data repository experiences in UK HE

    TMTOWTDI: Three data repository experiences in UK HE

    Posted on 21 November 2012 by Monica Duke | From DCC
    Three data repository experiences at UK Higher Educational institutions: A report on parallel session 2B on data repositories and storage (group 1) at the JISC Managing Research Data Meeting in Nottingham, 24 October 2012. This session on data reposito...

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  • MRD Hack Days: File backup, sync and versioning, or “The Academic Dropbox”

    MRD Hack Days: File backup, sync and versioning, or “The Academic Dropbox”

    Posted on 4 May 2012 by Jez Cope | From Research360
    This post emerged from discussions at the JISC MRD Hack Days, particularly with Joss Winn of the University of Lincoln’s Centre for Educational Research and Development. The event brought together developers and data management experts for two intensive days to discuss and prototype tools for research data management. Joss has also written a more discursive post [...]

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  • Hitachi Content Platform object store arrives

    Hitachi Content Platform object store arrives

    Posted on 12 March 2012 by Jez Cope | From Research360
    Just a little bit of geekery really. The object store that I mentioned the other week has now arrived! The cabinet on the left in the photo is almost entirely disks. We have one for each data centre, but installing them into our existing infrastructure is a non-trivial task, so it’ll be a while before they’re [...]

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  • Object stores

    Object stores

    Posted on 20 February 2012 by Jez Cope | From Research360
    Although my involvement in Research360 is at the level where technology and people interact, I’m also doing my best to understand how our infrastructure is developing at a much lower level so that I’m in a position to better advise non-technical stakeholders. Bath University Computing Services (BUCS) are currently in the process of procuring a new [...]

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  • IDCC11 Session 3B: environmental data

    IDCC11 Session 3B: environmental data

    Posted on 9 December 2011 by kerry.miller | From DCC
    The presentations in this session looked at different aspects of data creation, storage, and sharing in environmental research. A significant theme was the need to encourage data sharing by researchers by providing them with suitable rewards. Read more

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