Since the electricity bill of a data center constitutes a significant portion of its overall operational costs, reducing this has become important. We investigate cost reduction o...
Rahul Urgaonkar, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Michael J. Neel...
Modern storage systems are sophisticated. Simple directattached storage devices are giving way to storage systems that are shared, flexible, virtualized and network-attached. Toda...
Oguzhan Ozmen, Kenneth Salem, Mustafa Uysal, M. Ho...
—Distributed file systems that use multiple servers to store data in parallel are becoming commonplace. Much work has already gone into such systems to maximize data throughput....
Nawab Ali, Ananth Devulapalli, Dennis Dalessandro,...
As storage systems grow larger and more complex, the traditional block-based design of current disks can no longer satisfy workloads that are increasingly metadata intensive. A ne...
Ananth Devulapalli, Dennis Dalessandro, Pete Wycko...
Multi-tier systems that combine SSDs with SAS/FC and/or SATA disks mitigate the capital cost burden of SSDs, while benefiting from their superior I/O performance per unit cost an...
Jorge Guerra, Himabindu Pucha, Joseph S. Glider, W...