Paper Title: Delivering the Data Factory

Paper Abstract: Unstructured data has emerged as the central challenge and opportunity to all kinds of business initiatives in every industry, and it is expected that unstructured data capacity will double or even triple over the next few years. The data is more massive in scale, it is not generated in a datacenter, and it is mobile throughout its life, which is now typically measured in decades. This has strained long standing assumptions around cost, performance and management of the data stored on these systems. Interestingly, some of the most exciting innovation is happening in what has been considered the archive space that has been dominated by tape. The use cases today for the intersection of object storage and tape are challenging the underlying technologies. This talk will focus on those challenges and solutions to address them and look briefly at future disruptive technologies.

Paper Author: Brian Pawlowski, Chief Development Officer, Quantum Corp.

Author Bio: Brian Pawlowski joined Quantum in December 2020 as Chief Development Officer. Brian is a distinguished technologist experienced in building storage technologies and leading teams at global technology companies, such as Sun Microsystems, NetApp (employee #18), and Pure Storage. Brian lately focuses on User Experience and solid state storage solutions and end-to-end data life cycle strategies. He is co-architect of NFS and co-chairs the NFS working group at the IETF, and was one of the original developers of what is now the SPEC Storage Benchmark and remains an active contributor. Brian served on the Board of Trustees for the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology and was a Board member at the Linux Foundation. Brian studied computer science at Arizona State University and studied physics at the University of Texas at Austin and MIT.