Disk drives are now available with capacities on the order of hundreds of gigabytes. What has not become available is an easy way to manage storage. With installed machines locate...
A “Storage-Area Network” (SAN) comprises computers (“Initiators”), storage “block devices” (“Targets”), and a Controller(s). Most SANs use the SCSI protocol over v...
Standardized 32-bit Cyclic Redundancy Codes provide fewer bits of guaranteed error detection than they could, achieving a Hamming Distance (HD) of only 4 for maximum-length Ethern...
This paper presents the implementation and performance evaluation of a real, secure object-based storage system compliant to the TIO OSD standard. In contrast to previous work, ou...
Zhongying Niu, Ke Zhou, Dan Feng, Hong Jiang, Fran...
Mariner is an iSCSI-based storage system that is de signed to provide comprehensive data protection on com modity ATA disk and Gigabit Ethernet technologies while offering the...