Current State of the Library

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Current State of the Library

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Environments

• Business some challenges but mature
• Applications chaotic many challenges
• Archiving relatively new most challenging

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Applications - challenges

• Backup
• COOP/DR
• Storage
• Scalability
• Tech refresh - migration

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Archiving - challenges

• Ingest
• Inventory/Content Management
• Storage
• Migration
• Tech refresh
• Applications interface

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What the Library has Servers and Storage

• Heterogeneous server environment 200 servers
  various Unix and Windows
• Monolithtic storage environment EMC 650TB and
  Sun/STK 150TB 80 used
• Tape environment IBM TotalStorage and Sun/STK
  SL8500
• Near Line 40TB CAS 100 used, 500TB tape 60
  used
• Retrievable data stored 950-980TB

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The Library modelAudio Video Conservation Center

• Ingest TB/day
• Workflow - automated
• Content Management
• Applications interface deployable products
• Storage disk and tape

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Challenges

• Preservation
• Migration
• Content Management

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Preservation

• Backup
• Archiving
• COOP/DR
• What files are part of the Applications
  environment and what files are part of the
  Archive environment

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Migration

• Tech refresh
• Scalability
• We dont want to deal with the equivalent of wax
  cylinders 10 years from now
• This will be the biggest issue in 5-10 years

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Content Management

• Ingest
• Content description management
• Applications interface
• Ingest is something we can do but knowing what we
  have and how to retrieve it is a bigger issue