Adapting to current context of usage is of fundamental importance for pervasive computing services. As the technology for acquiring contextual information is increasingly availabl...
Flash Memory based Solid State Drive (SSD) has been called a “pivotal technology” that could revolutionize data storage systems. Since SSD shares a common interface with the t...
New portable consumer embedded devices must execute multimedia applications (e.g., 3D games, video players and signal processing software, etc.) that demand extensive memory acces...
Federated transaction management (also known as multidatabase transaction management in the literature) is needed to ensure the consistency of data that is distributed across mult...
As enterprise storage needs grow, it is challenging to manage storage systems. The costs of locally managing, supporting, and maintaining resilience in storage systems has skyrock...