COSC 3335 Course Schedule

Course Syllabus

Responsible Computing Policy
Map of campus computing facilities
Help Information edshare, Blackboard, CS
Reference Material Camden - for download sites, tutorials, articles. In progress.

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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NOTE: Schedule subject to change.  Check for new links.

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