When you hear the term "storage", do you think of a disk? a file? a flash drive? Storage Systems mean much more than that. These are the complex systems that store the world's exabytes of data in the cloud, they are responsible that data will always be available and reliable, and support Big Data Analytics systems.
Triggered by the Data proliferation and Cloud revolution of our era, Storage systems have undergone a major evolution in the way they are designed, built and used. In this talk I will tell the story behind this evolution: from Blocks and Files, to Objects. I will explain what led to it, and will review how cloud object stores are built and used in today's applications.
Dr. Dalit Naor is a senior manager of the Cloud Platforms department at IBM Research - Haifa, and a senior technical staff member at IBM. She specializes in Cloud platforms and Storage systems, and worked extensively with cloud object stores to support efficient Big Data Analytics. In the past she worked on security and Bioinformatics. Dalit published over 30 articles and 15 patents, and she is the Steering Committee Chair for Systor, ACM International Systems and Storage conference. Dalit holds M.Sc and PhD degrees from the University of California, Davis, and a B.Sc. degree from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, all in computer science.