— This paper introduces a new benchmark tool, SPEK (Storage Performance Evaluation Kernel module), for evaluating the performance of block-level storage systems in the presence o...
This paper introduces a new benchmark tool for evaluating performance and availability (performability) of networked storage systems, specifically storage area network (SAN) that...
Storage virtualization is becoming more and more important due to the increasing gap between application requirements and the limited functionality offered by storage systems. In...
—Large, reliable and efficient storage systems are becoming increasingly important in enterprise environments. Our research in storage system design is oriented towards the expl...
George Parissis, George Xylomenos, Theodore K. Apo...
: A newly emerging protocol for storage networking, iSCSI [1,2], was recently ratified by the Internet Engineering Task Force [3]. The iSCSI protocol is perceived as a low cost alt...