Information Storage and Management

Storage is the layer of IT infrastructure that decides whether your data survives a disk failure, a datacenter outage, or a ransomware incident, and this course teaches you how that layer is actually engineered, from RAID and SAN/NAS fabrics up through replication, backup, and cloud-hosted storage. You'll work through quizzes and homeworks on the underlying mechanics, a team project that pushes you to design a realistic storage solution, and both a written and multiple-choice final covering the full stack. It sits as a practical complement to networking and systems courses, and matters because almost every sysadmin, cloud, or DevOps role eventually owns decisions about how data is stored, protected, and recovered.