We introduce Shear, a user-level software tool that characterizes RAID storage arrays. Shear employs a set of controlled algorithms combined with statistical techniques to automat...
Timothy E. Denehy, John Bent, Florentina I. Popovi...
Modern desktop grid environments and shared computing platforms have popularized the use of contributory resources, such as desktop computers, as computing substrates for a variet...
— Efficient support of multicast traffic in Storage Area Networks (SANs) enables applications such as remote data replication and distributed multimedia systems, in which a ser...
Andrea Bianco, Paolo Giaccone, Enrico Maria Giraud...
The reliability of a large-scale storage system is influenced by a complex set of inter-dependent factors. This paper presents a comprehensive and extensible analytical framework ...
Power-proportional cluster-based storage is an important component of an overall cloud computing infrastructure. With it, substantial subsets of nodes in the storage cluster can b...
Hrishikesh Amur, James Cipar, Varun Gupta, Gregory...