Because of its small form factor, high capacity, and expected low cost, MEMS-based storage is a suitable storage technology for mobile systems. However, flash memory may outperfor...
Mohammed G. Khatib, Ethan L. Miller, Pieter H. Har...
Storage virtualization in modern storage systems allows variability in the number of "physical" disks supporting a single "virtual" disk. In practice, IO workl...
Lin Qiao, Balakrishna R. Iyer, Divyakant Agrawal, ...
Multi-tier systems that combine SSDs with SAS/FC and/or SATA disks mitigate the capital cost burden of SSDs, while benefiting from their superior I/O performance per unit cost an...
Jorge Guerra, Himabindu Pucha, Joseph S. Glider, W...
Energy-efficiency is a key requirement in data centers today. Storage systems constitute a significant fraction of the energy consumed in a data center and therefore enterprise st...
Sriram Sankar, Sudhanva Gurumurthi, Mircea R. Stan