Title: CERN IT-Storage Operations: EOS-CERNBox and future strategy 
Speaker: Luca Mascetti 
Time: 15:00, Oct.16
Place: Meeting Room on the 2nd floor, Computing Center
Abstract:
CERN IT-Storage group is responsible for the operations and the development of the infrastructure matching all the storage requirements from the physics data generated by LHC and non-LHC experiments to the personnel users’ files. 
EOS is now the key component of the CERN Storage strategy, it allows to operate at high incoming throughput for experiment data-taking while running concurrent complex production work-loads. 
This high-performance distributed storage provides now more than 250PB of raw disks and is the key storage component behind the success of CERNBox, the CERN cloud synchronisation service which allows syncing and sharing files on all major mobile and desktop platforms (Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, iOS) aiming to provide offline availability to any data stored in the EOS infrastructure. 
CERNBox recorded an exponential growth in the last couple of year in terms of files and data stored thanks to its increasing popularity inside CERN users community and thanks to its integration with a multitude of other CERN services (Batch, SWAN, Microsoft Office). 
In parallel CASTOR is being simplified and transitioning from an HSM into an archival system, focusing mainly in the long-term data recording of the primary data from the detectors, preparing the road to the next generation tape archival system, CTA, based on EOS. 
In this presentation the speaker will give an overview of the solutions operated by the group with current and future storage developments. He will discuss about the strategy of the group to face future needs, highlighting the challenges ahead and the future evolution. 

About the Speaker： 
Luca Mascetti - Computer Engineer in the CERN IT Storage group, in charge of operating and supporting the data storage system services for CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) and the WLCG (Worldwide LHC Computing Grid) communities. 
Responsible for the deployment of the EOS storage system in production at CERN since 2011. Service manager of multiple storage systems, responsible for the storage scaling of the CERN sync & share solution, CERNBox. Currently responsible to oversee the EOS and CERNBox services as product manager.