Abstractions as the Foundation for Storage Infrastructure John MacCormick, Nick Murphy, Marc Najork, Chandramohan A. Thekkath, and Lidong Zhou Microsoft Research Silicon Valley Wr...
John MacCormick, Nick Murphy, Marc Najork, Chandra...
Electric energy consumed in data centers is rapidly growing. Power-aware IT, recently called `green IT', is widely recognized as a significant challenge. Disk storage is a no...
In a distributed storage system, client caches managed on the basis of small granularity objects can provide better memory utilization then page-based caches. However, object serv...
As main memory capacity increases, more of the database read requests will be satis ed from the bu er system. Consequently, the amount of disk write operations relative to disk re...
Rapid adoption of virtualization technologies has led to increased utilization of physical resources, which are multiplexed among numerous workloads with varying demands and impor...