The Named Data Networking (NDN) project aims to develop a new Internet architecture that can capitalize on strengths — and address weaknesses — of the Internet’s current host-based, point-to-point communication architecture in order to naturally accommodate emerging patterns of communication. By naming data instead of their locations, NDN transforms data into a first-class entity. The current Internet secures the data container. NDN secures the contents, a design choice that decouples trust in data from trust in hosts, enabling several radically scalable communication mechanisms such as automatic caching to optimize bandwidth.
Storage System Research Center. We are investigating the construction of large-scale storage systems using object-based storage devices (OSDs). An OSD is a network-attached storage device that presents an interface of arbitrarily-named data objects of variable size rather than sequentially numbered fixed-size blocks, to deal with the data storage details, such as request scheduling and data layout.
Henry Newman's Blog, InfoStor Blogger. Henry Newman is CEO and CTO of Instrumental Inc. and has worked in HPC and large storage environments for 29 years.
SNIA, advancing IT technologies, standards, and education programs for all IT professionals. Made up of some 400 member companies spanning the global storage market, the SNIA connects the IT industry with end-to-end storage and information management solutions.