On 12 September 2008 SigmaNet was hosting the 2nd TF-Storage task force meeting

On 12 September 2008 SigmaNet was hosting the 2nd TF-Storage task force meeting. TF-Storage coordinates the development of open and inter-operable data storage and management infrastructures and services among national research and education networks and academic and research institutions.

The meeting was attended by representatives from National Research and Education Networks, Universities, Research institutes and commercial companies. SigmaNet representatives (Dana Ludviga and Kaspars Krampis) reported about the experience with distributed data storage solution Cleversafe testing results and the new IMCS UL scientific data storage (500TB) project development and future plans. Other presentations covered topics like open file exchange systems docexchange.unibas.ch and www.filesender.org, national storage projects in other countries and potential collaboration among them as well as backup and virtualization issues. The presentations of the meeting are available from the TF-Storage home page.