In this paper we describe Cumulus, a system for efficiently implementing filesystem backups over the Internet. Cumulus is specifically designed under a thin cloud assumption--that...
Michael Vrable, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker
Abstract. This paper proposes to exploit content and usage information to rearrange an inverted index for a full-text IR system. The idea is to merge the entries of two frequently ...
In an online experiment, I apply theory from psychology and communications to find out whether group information management tasks are governed by the same communication processes...
Users commonly download, patch, and use applications such as email clients, office applications, and media-players from the Internet. Such applications are run with the user’s ...
Dynamic Storage Tiering (DST) is the concept of grouping storage devices into tiers based on their characteristics, and relocating files dynamically to leverage on the heterogene...