CTS 1411 - Fundamentals of Information Storage and Management

College of Computer & Information Technology

Credit(s): 3
Contact Hours: 47
Effective Term Fall 2022 (610)

Requisites

Prerequisite CET 1610 with a minimum grade of C or
Prerequisite CTS 1328 with a minimum grade of C or
Prerequisite CNT 1000 with a minimum grade of C

Course Description

This course covers modern storage infrastructure technology and management including: challenges and solutions for data storage and data management, intelligent storage systems, storage networking, backup, recovery, and archive, business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery, security and virtualization, managing and monitoring the storage infrastructure. Best practices for security policies of cloud resources including permissions, privileges and storage management are analyzed and performed.

Learning Outcomes and Objectives

  1. The student will acquire an understanding of leading storage technologies by:
    1. describing the infrastructure and core elements of a data center.
    2. describing the key characteristics of a data center.
    3. describing the key characteristics of virtualization and how it relates to optimizing infrastructure utilization.
    4. describing the technique of compute virtualization and the role of the hypervisor layer.
  2. The student will acquire knowledge of data protection technologies, such as Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) and intelligent storage systems by:
    1. describing the different components of hardware RAID.
    2. describing the different RAID techniques, including striping, mirroring, and parity.
    3. defining the different levels of RAID, and each levels impact of disk performance and data protection.
    4. identifying the four key components of an intelligent storage system and defining the function of each.
  3. The student will acquire knowledge of data network infrastructure technologies and Storage Area Network (SAN) deployments by:
    1. identifying the different components of a Fibre Channel (FC) SAN, distinguishing between node ports, cables, and interconnecting devices.
    2. identifying different FC SAN topologies and describing the benefits and limitations of each topology.
    3. describing network-based virtualization techniques in a SAN environment.
    4. describing the benefits of Internet Protocol-based SAN (IP SAN) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) over traditional Fibre Channel infrastructure.
    5. describing the benefits of Network-attached Storage (NAS) versus general purpose servers.
  4. The students will acquire an understanding of Business Continuity (BC) and deploy backup and replication in a virtualized environment by:
    1. identifying the causes of information unavailability and the consequences of downtime.
    2. describing the five stages of the BC planning life cycle.
    3. identifying various backup methods and configuring backup and archiving.
    4. describing server-based and serverless backup in NAS environments.
    5. deploying local and remote replication in a non-virtual and virtualized environment.
  5. The student will acquire knowledge of storage infrastructure security threats and learn a framework to mitigate security threats by:
    1. identifying potential threats and attacks that can be carried out on connected storage devices.
    2. deploying access control services to regulate use access to data.
    3. describing the security controls of network infrastructure integrity and storage network encryption.
    4. identifying ways to secure the management access domain to protect the management infrastructure.
    5. identifying methods to secure storage infrastructure in virtualized and cloud environments.

Criteria Performance Standard

Upon successful completion of the course the student will, with a minimum of 70% accuracy, demonstrate mastery of each of the above stated objectives through classroom measures developed by individual course instructors.

History of Changes

Originally created by A. Ashe on 4/24/13; N. Russell confirmed that this is an undeveloped course as of 5/6/13 and is part of the COMPNET-AS (0480) program. 7/14/14: submitted to SCNS as CTS 1001; assigned CTS 1411. A. Ashe C&I Approval: , BOT Approval: 02/18/2014, Effective Term: Fall 2014 (490). C&I Approval: 04/24/2015, BOT Approval: 06/16/2015, Effective Term: Spring 2016 (510).
C&I Approval: , BOT Approval: , Effective Term: Fall 2022 (610)

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