Securing data is more important than ever, yet cryptographic file systems still have not received wide use. One barrier to the adoption of cryptographic file systems is that the...
iSCSI is one of the most recent standards that allows SCSI protocols to be carried out over IP networks. However, to encapsulate SCSI protocol over IP requires significant amount...
Structural changes, such as file creation and block allocation, have consistently been identified as file system performance problems in many user environments. We compare several...
Abstract—Large-scale parallel applications often produce immense quantities of data that need to be analyzed. To avoid performing repeated, costly disk accesses, analysis of larg...
Data-warehousing applications cope with enormous data sets in the range of Gigabytes and Terabytes. Queries usually either select a very small set of this data or perform aggregat...