—For demanding Grid applications that use resources at different cluster sites a reservation mechanism ensures the availability of resources to guarantee a certain level of QoS. ...
Christoph Barz, Peter Martini, Markus Pilz, Floria...
The sciences, business confederations, and medicine urgently need infrastructure for sharing data and updates among collaborators' constantly changing, heterogeneous databases...
Abstract— This paper provides a concise modeling and performance evaluation of the iSCSI storage area network (SAN) architecture and protocol. SANs play a key role in business co...
Large scale distributed applications combine network access with multiple storage and computational elements. The distributed responsibility for resource control creates new secur...
Sotiris Ioannidis, Steven M. Bellovin, John Ioanni...
With the rapidly falling price of hardware, and increasingly available bandwidth, the storage technology is seeing a paradigm shift from centralized and managed mode to distribute...