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COSC 3335 Course Schedule

Course Syllabus

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The ACL is open the same hours as the library.
Semester schedule is general outline. Specific topics/sections from the text will not be covered. These will be noted as the semester progresses.
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Week Begins Monday	Topics Covered Book Website	Assignments Due Friday of the week assigned Hand in or turn in Andre 310
8/24	Class Syllabus and Schedule Chapter 1. Introduction to Information Storage and Management Chapter 1 Review	HW1 due Computational Thinking
8/31	Chapter 2 Storage System Environment Student EMC Portal See instructor for access key. Sign up at SearchStorage milliseconds	HW2 due
9/7	Chapter 3 Data Protection: RAID SearchStorage Tutorials	HW3 due
9/14	Chapter 4 Intelligent Storage Systems The Errata Project - scribe: John Camden Seagate Barracuda Storage Bottlenecks	HW4 due
9/21	Parity Calculations Topic Ideas Review RAID Reference article Anonther RAID article Review notes	HW 5 due Monday before class 10 test questions that I could ask - T/F, problems, Multiple choice, ... Make up your own. Exam 1 Wednesday NOTE - 1 page of notes allowed
9/28	Chapter 5 Direct-Attached Storage and Introduction to SCSI Data Duplication	HW6 due
10/5	Chapter 6 Storage Area Networks Chapters 7 Network-Attached Storage NX4 NetApp	HW7 due * Submit electronically .docx file * Student Projects/Presentations
10/12	Chapters 7 Network-Attached Storage Chapter 8 IP SAN Article - NAS Inforworld Articles	SSL Article HW8 due
10/19	Chapter 9 Content-Addressed Storage Mon Lecture 1 Chap 11 Introduction to Business Continuity Down Time 1 Wed Lecture 1 Chap 12 Backup and Recovery Enterprise Cloud Storage	HW 9 due QLogic
10/26	Mon Review Notes	HW 10 due Monday before class 10 test questions that I could ask - T/F, problems, Multiple choice, .... Exam 2 Wednesday NOTE - 1 page of notes allowed
11/2	Mon Review Exam Backup and Recovery Wed Lecture 1 Chapter 13 Local Replication Lecture 1 Chapter 14 Remote Replication Cloud Storage Article	HW11 due Sunday by 6 **** Note new notes in HW 11 Friday 11/6
11/9	Business Continuity Article Mon Lecture 1 Chapter 15 Securing Storage Infrastructure Wed. Team 5 From Article Data Storage Backup 1. Encryption key management: New standards on the horizon 2. Is cloud/online data backup really secure? 3. The pros and cons of host-based vs. appliance-based tape encryption 4. Data protection for ROBOs 5. Where should you encrypt your data? 6. Article on Hot and Warm sites 7. Designing a Data Center 8. Time Synchronization	HW12 due See References at Left Prepare and deliver a 10 - 15 minute summary of the article. Include material from links in the article. Prepare a separate vocabulary list of relevant terms used in the article. Duplication in vocabulary lists and content is fine. 1. Jaime, Nathaniel 2. Matt, Sean, Holt 3. Zane, Curtis, Roland 4. James, Jon, Bryan 5. Melissa, Juan 6. Javier, Marisol 7. Roberto, Kassandra 8. Alfred, Andrew, Ricardo
11/16	Mon Team 1, Team 2 Reference Disaster Recovery Wed Team 3, Team 4 Article on Cloud Storage Webcast Deploying a Backup System 52 Min - get coffee, watch together Cloud Notes	HW 13 due
11/23	Flash Storage Article Mon Team 6, Team 7 Thanksgiving Thursday	HW 14 due
11/30	Mon Team 8 Wed Performance Metrics article Some Final Review notes	HW 15 due beginning of class Monday 10 questions for the final exam due Student Questions Review Notes
12/7	Final Exam week 8 1/2 x 11 Prop Sheet permitted	Final Exam