Enterprise storage systems depend on disk arrays for their capacity and availability needs. To design and maintain storage systems that efficiently satisfy evolving requirements, ...
Mustafa Uysal, Guillermo A. Alvarez, Arif Merchant
Parallax is a distributed storage system that uses virtualization to provide storage facilities specifically for virtual environments. The system employs a novel architecture in ...
Dutch T. Meyer, Gitika Aggarwal, Brendan Cully, Ge...
Disk arrays (RAID) have been proposed as a possible approach to solving the emerging I/O bottleneck problem. The performance of a RAID system when all disks are operational and th...
Reliability and availability are increasingly important in large-scale storage systems built from thousands of individual storage devices. Large systems must survive the failure o...
Qin Xin, Ethan L. Miller, Thomas J. E. Schwarz, Da...
A flexible model for estimating reliability of RAID storage systems is presented. This model corrects errors associated with the common assumption that system times to failure fol...