Motivation
for NGAS:
-Handle
huge amount of data streams in real time.
-Reduce
operational costs (man-power).
-Decrease
expenses in general.
-Provide
online and offline processing capabilities.
-Ease
integration of archive facility with external clients/applications.
-Provide
a common concept for the online archive and the long-term storage facilities (NGAS ≈ OLAS + ASTO + Jukebox SW +
more). Note, no plan to replace
OLAS for now.
-Simplify
and unify the overall infrastructure of the archive system.
-Increase
data security.