This paper is motivated by a simple question: what are the energy consumption characteristics of mobile storage alternatives? To answer this question, we are faced with a design s...
Fengzhou Zheng, Nitin Garg, Sumeet Sobti, Chi Zhan...
The increasing popularity of cloud storage is leading organizations to consider moving data out of their own data centers and into the cloud. However, success for cloud storage pr...
Hussam Abu-Libdeh, Lonnie Princehouse, Hakim Weath...
Storage accounts for a significant amount of a data center's ever increasing power budget. As a consequence, energy consumption has joined performance and reliability as a do...
Kevin M. Greenan, Darrell D. E. Long, Ethan L. Mil...
Peer-to-peer storage systems assume that their users consume resources in proportion to their contribution. Unfortunately, users are unlikely to do this without some enforcement m...
A typical storage hierarchy comprises of components with varying performance and cost characteristics, providing multiple options for data placement. We propose and evaluate a hie...