by Marty Foltyn
SNIA on Storage continues its preview of SNIA Tutorials at the Storage Visions Conference, a partner program of CES held on January 3-5, 2016 at the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas. “SNIA Education Day” is held on afternoon of the pre-conference day at Storage Visions – January 3, 2016 – and is designed to give attendees the opportunity to learn about important storage topics on depth with leading industry speakers.
In the December 17th SNIA on Storage blog, we featured a tutorial which examines the conflict between privacy and data protection as illustrated in the European Union, but really applicable worldwide. In the December 18 blog, we previewed the Practical Online Cache Analysis and Optimization tutorial. In the December 21 blog, we examined Massively Scalable File Storage – the Key to the Internet of Things.
Today’s blog provides a research perspective on “Fog” Computing and its Ecosystem – providing data, compute, storage, and applications services to end users – presented by Professor Ramin Elahi of the University of California, Santa Cruz.
The distinguishing Fog characteristics are its proximity to end-users, its dense geographical distribution, and its support for mobility. This SNIA Tutorial will discuss how services are hosted at the network edge or even end devices such as set-top-boxes or access points, which therefore alleviates issues the IoT (Internet of Things) is expected to produce, such as reducing service latency and improving QoS, resulting in a superior user-experience. Fog Computing supports the emerging Internet of Everything (IoE) applications that demand real-time/predictable latency (industrial automation, transportation, networks of sensors and actuators). Thanks to its wide geographical distribution the Fog paradigm is well positioned for real time big data and real time analytics. Fog supports densely distributed data collection points, hence adding a fourth axis to the often mentioned Big Data dimensions (volume, variety, and velocity)
SNIA Tutorial presenter Ramin Elahi, MSEE, is an Adjunct Professor and Advisory Board Member at UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley. He has taught Data Center Storage, Unix Networking and System Administration at UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley Ext. since 1996. He is also a Sr. Education Consultant at EMC Corp. He has also served as a Training Solutions Architect at NetApp, where he managed the engineering on-boarding and training curricula development. Prior to NetApp, he was Training Site Manager at Hitachi Data Systems Academy in charge of development and delivery of enterprise storage arrays certification programs. He also was the global network storage curricula manager at Hewlett-Packard. His areas of expertise are data center storage design and architecture, Data ONTAP, cloud storage, and virtualization. He has also held variety of positions at Cisco, Novell and SCO as a consultant and escalation engineer. He implemented the first university-level Data Storage and Virtualization curriculum in Northern California back in 2007.
SNIA is a proud sponsor of the Storage Visions Conference, a partner program of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Storage Visions, held in Las Vegas right before CES on January 3-5, 2016, is the place to explore the latest information on the rapidly evolving technology of digital storage and how it impacts consumer electronics, the internet of things, and storage in the cloud. If you have not registered for Storage Visions, head over to http://www.storagevisions.com for the conference preview. Take $100 off your registration with the link: https://sv2016.eventbrite.com/?discount=onehundredoff_67349921