Today, several data-storage systems allow applications to create and manage custom metadata to improve data search and navigability in large-scale storage systems. Our thesis is t...
Distributed storage systems often use data replication to mask failures and guarantee high data availability. Node failures can be transient or permanent. While the system must ge...
Jing Tian, Zhi Yang, Wei Chen, Ben Y. Zhao, Yafei ...
Cloud storage is an emerging infrastructure that offers Platforms as a Service (PaaS). On such platforms, storage and compute power are adjusted dynamically, and therefore it is i...
We describe a technique called lookaside caching that combines the strengths of distributed file systems and portable storage devices, while negating their weaknesses. In spite of...
Niraj Tolia, Jan Harkes, Michael Kozuch, Mahadev S...
In data dominated applications, like multi-media and telecom applications, data storage and transfers are the most important factors in terms of energy consumption, area and syste...
Erik Brockmeyer, Arnout Vandecappelle, Sven Wuytac...