The performance of streaming media servers has been limited due to the dual requirements of high throughput and low memory use. Although disk throughput has been enjoying a 40% an...
Raju Rangaswami, Zoran Dimitrijevic, Edward Y. Cha...
We present DEBAR, a scalable and high-performance de-duplication storage system for backup and archiving, to overcome the throughput and scalability limitations of the state-of-th...
Tianming Yang, Hong Jiang, Dan Feng, Zhongying Niu...
Power consumption within the disk-based storage subsystem forms a substantial portion of the overall energy footprint in commodity systems. Researchers have proposed external cach...
Luis Useche, Jorge Guerra, Medha Bhadkamkar, Mauri...
While hardware caches are generally effective at improving application performance, they greatly complicate performance prediction. Slight changes in memory layout or data access p...
Synchronous transactional logging is the central mechanism for ensuring data persistency and recoverability in database systems. Unfortunately, magnetic disks are ill-suited for t...