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UNIGROUP GENERAL MEETING
MEETING INTRODUCTION
Unigroup's October 2016 meeting will be on Object Storage, often referred to as Cloud Storage. We are going to cover the following Object Storage topics: Fundamentals on Why Facebook/Netflix/Google and others are using Object Storage, Techniques/Architectures, Programmer/Developer REST APIs using Amazon S3 API, Systems Administration, Integration, Networking and Deployment.
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DIRECTIONS
Location:
The Cooper Union (http://www.cooper.edu)
School of Engineering (*** New Building ***)
41 Cooper Square (3rd Avenue @ 7th Street, between 6th & 7th Streets)
East Village, Manhattan
New York City, 10003
Meeting Room: ** (See Above, Room May Change Month-to-Month)
Located on the East side of Cooper Square. Look for the
new building with the non-traditional appearance.
Entrance is at the corner of 3rd Avenue and 7th Street.
Building lobby sign-in is required at the guard's desk.
Enter the building, check in with the guard at the lobby for
directions to the Unigroup Meeting Room.
Nearest mass transit stations are:
'6' to Astor Place (stops right at The Cooper Union),
then walk 1 block East and 1 block South.
'R' to 8th Street, then walk about 2 blocks East
then 1 block South.
'4/5/N/Q' to Union Square, then walk South and East.
or transfer to the downtown '6' to Astor Place.
'B/D/F/V' to Broadway-Lafayette, then walk North and East.
or transfer to the uptown '6' to Astor Place.
Free street parking in the area becomes available at 6pm.
There are parking lots on Broadway, at (or just South of) 8th
Street, across from the West side of Cooper Square, as well
as various others in the area.
PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Topic: Fundamentals of Using Object Storage
Related Topics/Keywords:
Computer Systems Storage Architecture, File Storage, Object Storage, Cloud Computing, Cloud Storage, Filesystems, Computing Infrastructure, Networking, REST API.
Introduction & Description of Talk:
Unigroup's October 2016 meeting will be on Object Storage, often referred to as Cloud Storage. We are going to cover the following Object Storage topics: Fundamentals on Why Facebook/Netflix/Google and others are using Object Storage, Techniques/Architectures, Programmer/Developer REST APIs using Amazon S3 API, Systems Administration, Integration, Networking and Deployment.
File and Object Storage: What is it, How does it Compare, Why does it matter?
Presentation Outline:
** Scality "Cool" Giveaways: Stickers, Notepads, Bags, USB Car Charger Adapters.
References & Web Resources:
What Is Object Storage by Tim Barry (via LinkedIn):
http://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-object-storage-tim-barry
Wikipedia on Object Storage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_storage
Wikipedia on Cloud Storage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_storage
Scality RING Object Distributed Storage Overview:
http://www.scality.com/ring/object-storage-overview/
Scality RING Datasheet:
http://go.scality.com/acton/attachment/18585/f-027a/1/-/-/-/-/DS_Scality_RING_Overview_052716_LtrWEB.pdf
Scality Whitepaper: Integrating Scality RING into OpenStack:
http://go.scality.com/acton/attachment/18585/f-0276/1/-/-/-/-/Integrating-Scality-RING-into-OpenStack.pdf
Scality Technical Resources/Whitepapers/Videos:
http://www.scality.com/resources/
Scality Blog:
http://www.scality.com/blog/
Scality Blog: The Information Age Drives Storages Petabyte Era:
http://www.scality.com/blog/the-information-age-drives-storages-petabyte-era/
Scality Blog: Being In Three Or More Places At Once:
http://www.scality.com/blog/being-in-three-or-more-places-at-once/
Scality Petabyte-scale Data Storage Demo/Trial:
http://scality.com/trial
Wikipedia on REST:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer
Wikipedia on Node.JS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Node.js
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Candida Valois, Senior Sales Engineer, Scality.
Candida Valois is a Senior Sales Engineer with 16+ years of IT experience in architecture and development of software products and solutions for various industries across many countries. Currently helping customers achieve their Cloud Object Storage and Software Defined Storage architecture implementation goals.
COMPANY BIOGRAPHY
Scality is the leader in software-defined storage at petabyte-scale. Founded in 2009, Scality has deployed software storage solutions that delivers billions of files to more than one hundred million users daily with 100% availability. Scality customers include the world's largest enterprises, particularly in media, telecommunications, and cloud. For more information please visit the Scality Web Site: http://www.scality.com.
GIVEAWAYS
Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR/Pearson, and O'Reilly have been kind enough to provide us with review copies of some of their books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at our meetings. The publishers always ask that the persons receiving the books provide a review and/or feedback about their books.
Unigroup would like to thank both publishing companies for the support provided by their User Group programs.
As always, all of the books will be available for review at the start of the meeting.
Note: Our book supply is currently running low, and we need to restock.
FEE SCHEDULE
Unigroup is a Professional Technical Organization and User Group, and its members pay a yearly membership fee. For Unigroup members, there is usually no additional charges (ie. no meeting fees) during their membership year. Non-members who wish to attend Unigroup meetings are usually required to pay a "Single Meeting Fee".
Yearly Membership (includes all meetings): $ 50.00
Student Yearly Membership (with current! ID): $ 25.00
Non-Member Single Meeting: $ 20.00
Non-Member Student Single Meeting (with! ID): $ 5.00
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FOOD AND REFRESHMENTS
Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served. This includes "wraps" such as turkey, roast beef, chicken, tuna and grilled vegetables as well as assorted salads (potato, tossed, pasta, etc), cookies, brownies, bottled water and assorted beverages.
Our thanks go to Scality for sponsoring the food service for this meeting!
Please join us for this meeting, you won't want to miss it!
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