In enterprise data centers power usage is a problem impacting server density and the total cost of ownership. Storage uses a significant fraction of the power budget and there are...
Dushyanth Narayanan, Austin Donnelly, Antony I. T....
Cluster-based and iSCSI-based storage systems rely on standard TCP/IP-over-Ethernet for client access to data. Unfortunately, when data is striped over multiple networked storage ...
Flash memory has become the most important storage media in mobile devices, and is beginning to replace hard disks in desktop systems. However, its relatively poor random write pe...
Support for distributed application management in large-scale networked environments remains in its early stages. Although a number of solutions exist for subtasks of application ...
Jeannie R. Albrecht, Ryan Braud, Darren Dao, Nikol...
This paper focuses on evaluation of the effectiveness of optimization at various layers of the IO path, such as the file system, the device driver scheduler, and the disk drive i...