Checkpointing is a widely used mechanism for supporting fault tolerance, but notorious in its high-cost disk access. The idea of memory-based checkpointing has been extensively stu...
We present DEBAR, a scalable and high-performance de-duplication storage system for backup and archiving, to overcome the throughput and scalability limitations of the state-of-th...
Tianming Yang, Hong Jiang, Dan Feng, Zhongying Niu...
Two schemes proposed to cope with unrecoverable or latent media errors and enhance the reliability of RAID systems are examined. The first scheme is the established, widely used d...
Ilias Iliadis, Robert Haas, Xiao-Yu Hu, Evangelos ...
Large archival storage systems experience long periods of idleness broken up by rare data accesses. In such systems, disks may remain powered off for long periods of time. These s...
Thomas J. E. Schwarz, Qin Xin, Ethan L. Miller, Da...
This paper presents a strong security scheme for network-attached storage (NAS) that is based on capability and uses a key distribution scheme to keep network-attached storage fro...