—Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) is a means of increasing the density of hard drives that brings a new set of challenges. Due to the nature of SMR disks, updating in place is n...
Stephanie N. Jones, Ahmed Amer, Ethan L. Miller, D...
—Distributed key value storage systems are widely used by many popular networking corporations. Nevertheless, server power consumption has become a growing concern for key value ...
Nannan Zhao, Jiguang Wan, Jun Wang 0001, Changshen...
Abstract—As the market becomes competitive, SSD manufacturers are making use of multi-bit cell flash memory such as MLC and TLC chips in their SSDs. However, these chips have lo...
Heejin Park, Jaeho Kim, Jongmoo Choi, Donghee Lee,...
—Data deduplication is important for snapshot backup of virtual machines (VMs) because of excessive redundant content. Fingerprint search for source-side duplicate detection is r...
Wei Zhang, Daniel Agun, Tao Yang, Rich Wolski, Hon...
—Increased NAND flash memory density has come at the cost of lifetime reductions. Flash lifetime can be extended by relaxing internal data retention time, the duration for which...
—In-memory computing is gaining popularity as a means of sidestepping the performance bottlenecks of block storage operations. However, the volatile nature of DRAM makes these sy...
— Emerging byte-addressable, non-volatile memory like phase-change memory, STT-MRAM, etc. brings persistence at latencies within an order of magnitude of DRAM, thereby motivating...
—Users store rapidly increasing amount of data into the cloud. Cloud storage service is often characterized as having a large data set and few deletes. Hosting the service on a c...
Chunbo Lai, Song Jiang, Liqiong Yang, Shiding Lin,...
— Small I/O requests are important for a large number of modern workloads in the data center. Traditionally, storage systems have been able to achieve low I/O rates for small I/O...