Large Research Data Store (LaRDS)

The Large Research Data Store (LaRDS) is now a production service.  For further information please refer to:

• LaRDS service
• LaRDS project history

A number of LaRDS enhancement activities are planned for 2008 including:

• Expand LaRDS Novell capacity
• Migrate LaRDS iFolder service to eR SAN
• Commission production LaRDS SRB services (previously DART SRB demonstrator)
• Commission production LaRDS general purpose data-base services [Oracle DONE]
• Commission MediaFlux digital asset management system
• Migrate LaRDS NFS services from sn1 to sirius servers and decommission sn1
• Migrate Monash ARROW services to LaRDS storage infrastructure
• Expand LaRDS disk capacity to 250TB [DONE]
• Expand LaRDS tape library capacity to 2.2 PB  [DONE]
• Expand LaRDS disk capacity
• Expand LaRDS tape media capacity
• Commission VeRSI storage capacity
• Develop LaRDS usage accounting and capacity allocation systems
• Commission Sakai data collaboration environment [DONE]
• Commission Subversion (SVN) repository.