Windows Azure Storage (WAS) is a cloud storage system that provides customers the ability
to store seemingly limitless amounts of data for any duration of time. WAS customers have …

Flash-based Solid State Drive (SSD) has been productively shipped and deployed in large
scale storage systems. However, a single flash-based SSD cannot satisfy the capacity …

I/O traces are good sources of information about realworld workloads; replaying such traces
is often used to reproduce the most realistic system behavior possible. But traces tend to be …

Dealing with disk failures has become an increasingly common task for system
administrators in the face of high disk failure rates in large-scale data centers consisting of …

Random writes significantly limit the application of flash memory in enterprise environment
due to its poor latency, shorten lifetime and high garbage collection overhead. Solid State …

利用RAID 机制构建基于闪存的SSD 可以提高SSD 的性能和可靠性, 但是随着SSD 容量的增大,
传统的单层RAID 结构容易造成控制器的瓶颈. 针对这个问题, 提出了一种新的RAID 策略 …

The buffer cache plays an essential role in smoothing the gap between the upper level
computational components and the lower level storage devices. A good buffer cache …

The mirror method and its variants are widely used in storage systems. However, they suffer
from low data availability during on-line reconstruction because sequential reads are …

Dealing with the problem of virtual network (VN) mapping in the environment of network
virtualization, this paper proposes a decomposing mapping algorithm that generally focuses …

Big data stores are becoming increasingly important in a variety of domains including
scientific computing, internet applications, and business applications. For price and …