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DB 4 3 paragraphs:

Cluster computing takes advantage of many physical machines interconnected to provide high-performance computing and highly available services. Because cluster computing uses

more than a single machine, discuss the following:

Do you still need to be concerned with data protection? Why or why not?

What are 2 advantages of a good data protection plan?

How might you implement a data protection plan? Be specific

Please remember that you should provide proper citations and references for all of your sources.

DB 5 3 paragraphs:

Cluster management and monitoring utilities are critical to the existence and proper functioning of your cluster. The implementation and management requirements vary across

cluster solutions.

Name a tool or tools that you have discovered for cluster management and monitoring for a named cluster implementation.

Discuss 2 advantages and 2 disadvantages of the implementation of the cluster tool.

Identity the cluster solution that the tool can be used to manage.

Please remember that you should provide proper citations and references of all of your sources.

Assignment #1

Deliverable Length:

2 Pages in APA Format

Description:

In 2–3 page, APA formatted paper for the scenarios below, discuss your reasons for selecting one option over the alternative.

Describe a scenario in which you would select an SAN over an NAS for the company’snetwork storage needs.

The scenario will describe the company, the size in terms of revenue, the number of employees, the industry segment, data requirements, general types of data transactions,etc.

Project #1

Deliverable Length:

5 pages APA format

Description:

Imagine that you are serving in the role of director of data center operations for your company, which is currently using redundant sites as backup and manually managing

replication and failovers. The business plan for your organization has changed, and management has decided to grow the business by 20% over the next year. The chief

information officer (CIO) has tasked you with meeting the expected increase in demand for data storage while not increasing your department's budget. You believe that you can

meet the challenge by adopting a new concept called data center virtualization.

Project #2

Deliverable Length:

4 pages APA formatted

Description:

Data center managers sometimes find that the most conventional solutions to their data storage problems are not solved through the commonly used distributed storage

architecture. When this occurs, they find themselves looking at alternative network storage architecture such as BigTable and Dynamo. You have been asked by your CIO to

prepare a white paper of 4-5 pages APA formatted describing the BigTable and Dynamo network storage architectures. In this paper, you should do the following: Provide the

advantages and disadvantages of the alternative solution. Consider the 2 key financial elements of the IT decision-making process that include ROI (return on investment) and

TCO (total cost of ownership). The paper should mention some of the points below: Definition of iSCSI protocol The concept of using TCP/IP as a transport mechanism Media used

mainly with hard drives and tapes Peer-to-peer type interface Generally up to 16 devices can be attached to a single busRAIDs on servers usually use SCSI hard disks

Assignment #2 454

Write 3 page APA formatted paper discussing whether, in the next few years, RDBMS will be replaced completely, partially, or not at all by the newer distributed storage structures.

Discuss your reason and your point and the reason for your selection.

Please discuss and offer justification for how you can make an argument against. Please support your positions.