Is Entropy Winning? Drowning in the Data Tsunami

We're drowning under a wave of data and are oblivious to it. As data space expands we will start losing track of—and thus losing—our data. Archival backups add complexity to this already confusing situation. Then we toss in security and availability issues for some spice. Where is this going, and how can we handle it in the face of millions of gigabytes of "old cruft"?

Lee Damon has been a UNIX system administrator since 1985 and has been active in SAGE since its inception. He assisted in developing a mixed AIX/SunOS environment at IBM Watson Research and has developed mixed environments for Gulfstream Aerospace and QUALCOMM. He is currently leading the development effort for the Nikola project at the University of Washington. He is past chair of the SAGE Ethics and Policies working groups and he chaired LISA '04.

Evan founded Aardvark Technologies in 1994, which has since produced many books, papers, and tutorials. He has acquired more than 15 years of experience in UNIX systems. Evan also spent 5 years at Sun Microsystems, and 2.5 years at Fusion Systems, where he worked to bring the first high availability clustering software applications for SunOS and Solaris to market. He is the lead author of Blueprints for High Availability, and co-author and co-editor of The Resilient Enterprise.