Hard-disk drive power consumption reduction methods focus mainly on increasing the amount of time the disk is in standby mode (disk spun down) by implementing aggressive data read...
Migrating a live, running operating system from one machine to another has proven to be an invaluable tool over the past few years. Today, however, the only way to migrate an OS i...
Michael A. Kozuch, Michael Kaminsky, Michael P. Ry...
In a distributed system, replication of components, such as objects, is a well known way of achieving availability. For increased availability, crashed and disconnected components...
We study the problem of representing images within a multimedia Database Management System (DBMS), in order to support fast retrieval operations without compromising storage e cien...
Sergio D. Servetto, Yong Rui, Kannan Ramchandran, ...
We present recommendations on Performance Management for databases supporting Binary Large Objects (BLOB) that, under a wide range of conditions, save both storage space and datab...