File systems make use of part of DRAM as the buffer cache to enhance its performance in traditional systems. In this paper, we consider the use of Non-Volatile RAM (NVRAM) as a w...
In Hwan Doh, Hyo J. Lee, Young Je Moon, Eunsam Kim...
To address the limitations of centralized shared storage for cloud computing, we are building Lithium, a distributed storage system designed specifically for virtualization workl...
While the cost per megabyte of magnetic disk storage is economical, organizations are alarmed by the increasing cost of managing storage. Storage Area Network (SAN) architectures ...
Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Shan Gao, Chris Gahagan, ...
Due to the ever-widening performance gap between processors and disks, I/O operations tend to become the major performance bottleneck of data-intensive applications on modern clus...
Yifeng Zhu, Hong Jiang, Xiao Qin, Dan Feng, David ...
In this paper we describe Cumulus, a system for efficiently implementing filesystem backups over the Internet. Cumulus is specifically designed under a thin cloud assumption--that...
Michael Vrable, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker