—This paper considers the problem of how to improve the performance of hybrid storage system employing solid state disks and hard disk drives. We utilize both initial block alloc...
A multimedia server delivers presentations (e.g., videos, movies, games), providing high bandwidth and continuous real-time delivery. In this paper we present techniques for reduc...
Distributed Shortest-Positioning Time First (D-SPTF) is a request distribution protocol for decentralized systems of storage servers. D-SPTF exploits high-speed interconnects to d...
Most state-of-the-art commercial storage virtualization systems focus only on one particular storage attribute, capacity. This paper describes the design, implementation and evalu...
Performance monitoring in most distributed systems provides minimal guidance for tuning, problem diagnosis, and decision making. Stardust is a monitoring infrastructure that repla...
Eno Thereska, Brandon Salmon, John D. Strunk, Matt...