Parallax is a distributed storage system that uses virtualization to provide storage facilities specifically for virtual environments. The system employs a novel architecture in ...
Dutch T. Meyer, Gitika Aggarwal, Brendan Cully, Ge...
ct In this paper, we evaluate storage system alternatives for movies-on-demandvideo servers. We begin by characterizing the movies-on-demand workload. We brie y discuss performance...
Ann L. Chervenak, David A. Patterson, Randy H. Kat...
This paper investigates randomization and replication as strategies to achieve reliable performance in disk arrays targeted for video-on-demand (VoD) workloads. A disk array can p...
A cluster of PCs can be seen as a collection of networked low cost disks; such a collection can be operated by proper so as to provide the abstraction of a single, larger block de...
Alessandro Di Marco, Giovanni Chiola, Giuseppe Cia...
Energy consumption has become an important issue in high-end data centers, and disk arrays are one of the largest energy consumers within them. Although several attempts have been...
Qingbo Zhu, Zhifeng Chen, Lin Tan, Yuanyuan Zhou, ...