Web services rely on caching at nearly every layer of the system architecture. Commonly,
each cache is implemented and maintained independently by a distinct team and is highly …

We introduce Skylight, a novel methodology that combines software and hardware
techniques to reverse engineer key properties of drive-managed Shingled Magnetic …

Hybrid storage systems (HSS) use multiple different storage devices to provide high and
scalable storage capacity at high performance. Data placement across different devices is …

Facebook uses flash devices extensively in its photo caching stack. The key design
challenge for an efficient photo cache on flash at Facebook is its workload: many small …

Eliminating duplicate data in primary storage of clouds increases the cost-efficiency of cloud
service providers as well as reduces the cost of users for using cloud services. Existing …

Data deduplication is widely used to reduce the size of backup workloads, but it has the
known disadvantage of causing poor data locality, also referred to as the fragmentation …

As a cache eviction algorithm, FIFO has a lot of attractive properties, such as simplicity,
speed, scalability, and flash-friendliness. The most prominent criticism of FIFO is its low …

Host-side flash caching has emerged as a promising solution to the scalability problem of
virtual machine (VM) storage in cloud computing systems, but it still faces serious limitations …

Write Once, Get 50% Free: Saving SSD Erase Costs Using WOM Codes Page 1 This paper
is included in the Proceedings of the 13th USENIX Conference on File and Storage …

Fast access of data from Data Warehouse (DW) is a need for today's Business Intelligence
(BI). In the era of Big Data, the cache is regarded as one of the most effective techniques to …