Although system virtualization is not a new paradigm, the way in which it is used in modern
system architectures provides a powerful platform for system building, the advantages of …

As the amount of digital data grows, so does the theft of sensitive data through the loss or
misplacement of laptops, thumb drives, external hard drives, and other electronic storage …

With the rapid development of cloud storage, more and more data owners store their data on
the remote cloud, that can reduce data owners' overhead because the cloud server …

Over the last twenty years the interfaces for accessing persistent storage within a computer
system have remained essentially unchanged. Simply put, seek, read and write have …

Secure data deletion is the task of deleting data irrecoverably from a physical medium. In the
digital world, data is not securely deleted by default; instead, many approaches add secure …

Deterministic replay systems record and reproduce the execution of a hardware or software
system. In contrast to replaying execution on uniprocessors, deterministic replay on …

We examine the write endurance of USB flash drives using a range of approaches: chip-
level measurements, reverse engineering, timing analysis, whole-device endurance testing …

The vast majority of state produced by a typical computer is generated, consumed, then lost
forever. We argue that a computer system should instead provide the ability to recall any …

Parallax is a distributed storage system that uses virtualization to provide storage facilities
specifically for virtual environments. The system employs a novel architecture in which …

The high replication cost of Byzantine fault-tolerance (BFT) methods has been a major
barrier to their widespread adoption in commercial distributed applications. We present ZZ, a …