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White Papers
Metamatrix Enterprise Data Services Platform in Life Sciences
Apr 2009
The pharmaceutical industry today is faced with a combination of operational, regulatory, and information challenges. On the business front, companies must increase their productivity and reduce...
Provided by Red Hat
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White Papers
NetApp Storage Monitoring Using HP OpenView
Jul 2008
The main objective of this paper is to provide a possible integration path for customers who have NNM as their management solution. This paper will discuss some of the integration approaches for...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Leveraging SNIA XAM for Digital Archives
Apr 2008
As the growth of information volumes in digital archives continues to explode, retention periods lengthen and digital archives become extensions of primary production environments, organizations...
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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White Papers
EMC Centera: Optimizing Archive Efficiency
Jan 2009
Digital archiving has become a hot topic for corporate IT - driven by unrelenting data growth, the need to meet corporate compliance guidelines, and increasing federal regulation. To cost...
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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Whitepapers
70 TB of Disk Saving in 4 Days: EMC IT's Informatica Data Subset Proof of Concept
Jul 2009
This white paper illustrates the ability to reduce the data growth challenge seen with EMC's Oracle Applications CRM implementation via a Proof of Concept (POC) sponsored by the EMC IT...
Provided by EMC
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White Papers
Open Text NFS Solutions NFS Under the New Storage Paradigm
Nov 2009
The intent of this paper is threefold: firstly, this paper will review technologies and trends in enterprise storage; secondly, it will detail the history of the network file system and how it...
Provided by Open Text
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White Papers
Power Aware Storage Cache Management
Jan 2010
Reducing energy consumption is an important issue for data centers. Among the various components of a data center, storage is one of the biggest energy consumers. Previous studies have shown that...
Provided by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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White Papers
Energy Storage for the Electricity Grid: Benefits and Market Potential Assessment Guide
Feb 2010
This guide describes a high-level, technology-neutral framework for assessing potential benefits from and economic market potential for energy storage used for electric-utility-related...
Provided by Distributed Utility Associates
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White Papers
Energy-Efficient Storage in Virtual Machine Environments
Jul 2010
Current trends in increasing storage capacity and virtualization of resources combined with the need for energy efficiency put a challenging task in front of system designers. Previous studies...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Drive-Thru: Fast, Accurate Evaluation of Storage Power Management
Jan 2010
Running traces of realistic user activity is an important step in evaluating storage power management. Unfortunately, existing methodologies that replay traces as fast as possible on a live system...
Provided by University of Michigan
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White Papers
Network Coding for Distributed Storage Systems
Mar 2010
Distributed storage systems provide reliable access to data through redundancy spread over individually unreliable nodes. Application scenarios include data centers, peer-to-peer storage systems,...
Provided by University of Southern California
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White Papers
Design of an Intelligent Object-Based Storage Device
Aug 2009
Intelligent storage systems were an active area of research in later half of last decade. The idea was to improve the throughput of data intensive applications from database and image processing...
Provided by Ohio State University
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White Papers
Availability in Global Peer-to-Peer Storage Systems
Jan 2010
The recent popularity of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems for file sharing has led to increased demand for higher data availability from such systems. Measurements of popular P2P systems indicate that a...
Provided by Santa Clara University
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White Papers
Implicit Advantages Accrue to Integrated Storage Management Suites
Jun 2008
Hitachi Storage Command Suite is an integrated product that is based on extensive research into current and future market directions as well as pain-point feedback from users. While the suite...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
ZL UNIFIED ARCHIVE Storage Vs. Records Management
Sep 2009
Storage Management involves gaining cost and performance efficiencies from offloading data to lower-tier storage and/or deduplication. Most often, storage management on e-mail systems involves the...
Provided by ZL Technologies
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Whitepapers
Evolution of Storage Management: Transforming Raw Data Into Information
Sep 2008
Exponential growth in storage requirements and an increasing number of heterogeneous devices and application policies are making enterprise storage management a nightmare for administrators....
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Intel Solid-State Drive Optimizer
Dec 2009
Today, when a user deletes a file from their system, the host only deletes a pointer in the OS file system. This action does not physically erase the data from the drive. While the deleted data no...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Secure and Dependable Distributed Data Storage and Access Control in Mission-Critical Wireless Sensor Networks
Feb 2009
Distributed data storage and access in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) recently has found increased popularity driven by many mission-critical applications. While WSN security has been extensively...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Podcasts
How Do I: Use Isolated Storage in SL3 Out of Browser?
Nov 2010
Microsoft Silverlight 3 introduced the capability for a Silverlight application to be installed locally on a user's machine. It would be beneficial to also have access to some amount of storage on...
Provided by Microsoft
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Podcasts
TechNet Ramp Up: Exchange 2010: Compliance: Archiving and Retention
Oct 2010
This podcast helps them to learn about Exchange 2010 compliance archiving and retention. After completing this module, the will have learned about, Information Worker (IW) experience IT pro...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Calculating the ROI and Cost Savings of a Move to Tiered Storage by Fidelity National Information Services
Oct 2009
Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), a respected FORTUNE 500 firm in the financial and insurance sector. Fidelity National Information Services faced a number of infrastructure...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: iT-AUSTRIA
May 2010
Informations-Technologie Austria, or iTAUSTRIA as it is known internationally, was formed in 1998 to consolidate and enhance the computer operations of Austria's three major Banks: Bank Austria...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
A Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services Data Migration and Storage Reclamation Engagement
Apr 2009
One of the world's leading Global Financial Institutions (GFI), distressed by the economic downturn and challenged with increasing shareholder value, was looking for ways to optimize its data...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Building a Fast, Flexible Central SAN and Storage Infrastructure Management Resource for Swisscom IT Services
May 2009
The goal of the collaboration between Swisscom IT Services and Hitachi Data Systems was to build a central, server-independent SAN and storage infrastructure management resource. Swisscom IT...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Thin Provisioning, Using ETERNUS Disk Storage Systems, Enabled Storage Use Optimization That Now Supports Stable Integrated Infrastructure Operation, as Well as Fast and Flexible Service Delivery
Jan 2011
Synform Co., Ltd. provides support to the Benesse group of companies using IT provisioning. Facing an increase in the number of servers, Synform configured an integrated infrastructure using blade...
Provided by Fujitsu
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Case Studies
Maintaining Disk Capacity and Looking Ahead to the Next Five Years to Support Expansion of Gas Appliance Leasing at Reduced Cost Using Entry-Level Storage "ETERNUS DX60"
Jan 2011
Natural gas has become a focus as a clean energy that helps achieve a low-carbon society. Natural gas wanted to maintain disk capacity looking ahead to the next five years, while reducing costs....
Provided by Fujitsu
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White Papers
Depletable Storage Systems
Jun 2010
Depletable storage systems use media such as NAND flash that has a limited lifetime, which decreases with more usage. Such systems treat write cycles, in addition to space, as a constrained...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Failure Analysis of SGI XFS File System
Jan 2011
Commodity file systems expect a fail stop disk. But to-days disks fail in unexpected ways. Disks exhibit latent sector errors, silent corruption and transient failures to name a few. In this paper...
Provided by University of Wisconsin
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White Papers
Modeling the Performance and Energy of Storage Arrays
Sep 2010
This paper proposes a novel framework for evaluating techniques for power optimization in storage. Given an arbitrary trace of disk requests, the authors split it into short time intervals,...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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White Papers
FlashVM: Revisiting the Virtual Memory Hierarchy
Apr 2009
Flash memory is the largest change to storage in recent history. Most research to date has focused on integrating flash as persistent storage in file systems, with little emphasis on virtual...
Provided by University of Wisconsin
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White Papers
Storage Strategies - Keeping It Simple
Jan 2011
There is a perception that storage is now relatively simple. Although data volumes are rising rapidly, hardware costs continue to tumble, and any problem can be solved by just throwing more disks...
Provided by Quocirca
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White Papers
Object Storage on CRAQ: High-Throughput Chain Replication for Read-Mostly Workloads
Apr 2009
Massive storage systems typically replicate and partition data over many potentially-faulty components to provide both reliability and scalability. Yet many commercially deployed systems,...
Provided by Princeton University
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Whitepapers
Enhancing Storage System Availability on Multi-Core Architectures With Recovery-Conscious Scheduling
Jan 2008
This paper develops a recovery conscious frame-work for multi-core architectures and a suite of techniques for improving the resiliency and recovery efficiency of highly concurrent embedded...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
A Recovery Conscious Framework for Fault Resilient Storage Systems
Sep 2008
This paper presents a recovery?]conscious framework for improving the fault resiliency and recovery efficiency of highly concurrent embedded storage software systems. The framework consists of a...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Data Caching in Networks With Reading, Writing and Storage Costs
May 2009
Caching can significantly improve the efficiency of information access in networks by reducing the access latency and bandwidth/energy usage. However, caching in too many nodes can take up too...
Provided by Wichita State University
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Whitepapers
Storage Care, Backup Care and Utility Vaulting Services
Nov 2008
Recognizing customers must leverage existing storage infrastructure, Savvis offers Storage Care management services to monitor and manage certain storage arrays (3PAR, Hitachi Data Systems and...
Provided by SAVVIS
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White Papers
Storage and Retrieval of Large RDF Graph Using Hadoop and MapReduce
Nov 2009
Handling huge amount of data scalably is a matter of concern for a long time. Same is true for semantic web data. Current semantic web frameworks lack this ability. This paper describes a...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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White Papers
PADS: A Policy Architecture for Distributed Storage Systems
Mar 2009
This paper presents PADS, a policy architecture for building distributed storage systems. A policy architecture has two aspects. First, a common set of mechanisms that allow new systems to be...
Provided by University of Texas
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White Papers
Exploiting Half-Wits: Smarter Storage for Low-Power Devices
Dec 2010
This work analyzes the stochastic behavior of writing to embedded flash memory at voltages lower than recommended by a microcontroller's specifications to reduce energy consumption. Flash memory...
Provided by University of Massachusetts
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White Papers
Probabilistic Failure Detection for Efficient Distributed Storage Maintenance
Jul 2008
Distributed storage systems often use data replication to mask failures and guarantee high data availability. Node failures can be transient or permanent. While the system must generate new...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Journal Remap-Based FTL for Journaling File System With Flash Memory
Sep 2007
Constructing flash memory based storage, FTL (Flash Translation Layer) manages mapping between logical address and physical address. Since FTL writes every data to new region by its mapping...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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White Papers
Coordinating Processor and Main Memory for Server Power Capping
Nov 2009
With the number of high-density servers in data centers rapidly increasing, power capping with performance optimization has become a key challenge to gain a high return on investment by...
Provided by University of Tennessee
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White Papers
Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-Value Store
Oct 2007
Reliability at massive scale is one of the biggest challenges the authors face at Amazon.com, one of the largest e-commerce operations in the world; even the slightest outage has significant...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
F2F: Reliable Storage in Open Networks
Jan 2011
A major hurdle to deploying a distributed storage infrastructure in peer-to-peer systems is storing data reliably using nodes that have little incentive to remain in the system. The authors argue...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Efficient Replica Maintenance for Distributed Storage Systems
Jan 2011
This paper considers replication strategies for storage systems that aggregate the disks of many nodes spread over the Internet. Maintaining replication in such systems can be prohibitively...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
When Cryptography Meets Storage
Oct 2008
Confidential data storage through encryption is becoming increasingly important. Designers and implementers of encryption methods of storage media must be aware that storage has different usage...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
A Survey of Confidential Data Storage and Deletion Methods
Nov 2010
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 media....
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Managing Storage Space in a Flash and Disk Hybrid Storage System
Jun 2009
This paper considers the problem of efficiently managing storage space in a hybrid storage system employing flash and disk drives. The flash and disk drives exhibit different performance...
Provided by Texas A&M University
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White Papers
Exploiting Concurrency to Improve Latency and Throughput in a Hybrid Storage System
Jun 2010
This paper considers the problem of how to improve the performance of hybrid storage system employing solid state disks and hard disk drives. The authors utilize both initial block allocation as...
Provided by Texas A&M University
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White Papers
BORG: Block-reORGanization for Self-Optimizing Storage Systems
Jan 2009
This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of BORG, a self-optimizing storage system that performs automatic block reorganization based on the observed I/O workload. BORG is...
Provided by Florida International University
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White Papers
Concurrent Composition in the Bounded Quantum Storage Model
Apr 2010
The authors define the BQS-UC model, a variant of the UC model that deals with protocols in the bounded quantum storage model. This paper presents a statistically secure commitment protocol in the...
Provided by Saarland University
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Whitepapers
Authentic Time-Stamps for Archival Storage
Jun 2009
The authors study the problem of authenticating the content and creation time of documents generated by an organization and retained in archival storage. Recent regulations (e.g., The...
Provided by EMC
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White Papers
Leakage-Resilient Storage
Apr 2010
The authors study a problem of secure data storage on hardware that may leak information. This paper introduces a new primitive that the authors call Leakage-Resilient Storage (LRS), which is an...
Provided by University of Rome
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White Papers
EXCES: EXternal Caching in Energy Saving Storage Systems
Jan 2008
Power consumption within the disk-based storage sub-system forms a substantial portion of the overall energy footprint in commodity systems. Researchers have proposed external caching on a...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Safe and Efficient Supervised Memory Systems
Dec 2010
Supervised Memory systems use out-of-band metabits to control and monitor accesses to normal data memory for such purposes as transactional memory and memory type state trackers. Previous...
Provided by University of Wisconsin-Madison
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White Papers
Low-Complexity Codes for Random and Clustered High-Order Failures in Storage Arrays
Nov 2009
RC (Random/Clustered) codes are a new efficient array-code family for recovering from 4-erasures. RC codes correct most 4-erasures, and essentially all 4-erasures that are clustered. Clustered...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Buffer Coding for Asymmetric Multi-Level Memory
Jan 2011
Certain storage media such as flash memories use write-asymmetric, multi-level storage elements. In such media, data is stored in a multi-level memory cell the contents of which can only be...
Provided by California Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Increasing the Information Density of Storage Systems Using the Precision-Resolution Paradigm
Jan 2011
The (d, k) RLL system is perhaps the most commonly used constraint, appearing in various contexts and applications, including (but not restricted to) magnetic and optical storage, holographic...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
HBA: Distributed Metadata Management for Large Cluster-Based Storage Systems
Mar 2008
An efficient and distributed scheme for file mapping or file lookup is critical in decentralizing metadata management within a group of metadata servers. This paper presents a novel technique...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
MIDAS: An Execution-Driven Simulator for Active Storage Architectures
May 2008
Many applications today are highly data intensive and have stringent performance requirements. In order to meet the performance demands of these applications, the authors need to optimize both the...
Provided by University of Virginia
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White Papers
Managing Thermal Emergencies in Disk-Based Storage Systems
Dec 2008
Thermal-aware design of disk-drives is important because high temperatures can cause reliability problems. Dynamic Thermal Management (DTM) techniques have been proposed to operate the disk at the...
Provided by ASME International
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White Papers
FS2You: Peer-Assisted Semi-Persistent Online Storage at a Large Scale
Jan 2009
It has been widely acknowledged that online storage systems within the "Cloud" of the Internet provide services of a substantial value to end users who wish to share files of any sizes within a...
Provided by University of Toronto
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White Papers
Priority Random Linear Codes in Distributed Storage Systems
Nov 2008
One of the most important challenges in fully autonomous networks, including Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks and wireless sensor networks, has been the dynamic behavior of peer nodes and sensors....
Provided by University of Toronto
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White Papers
Probabilistic Failure Detection for Efficient Distributed Storage Maintenance
Jul 2008
Distributed storage systems often use data replication to mask failures and guarantee high data availability. Node failures can be transient or permanent. While the system must generate new...
Provided by Microsoft
-
White Papers
Exploiting Half-Wits: Smarter Storage for Low-Power Devices
Dec 2010
This work analyzes the stochastic behavior of writing to embedded flash memory at voltages lower than recommended by a microcontroller's specifications to reduce energy consumption. Flash memory...
Provided by University of Massachusetts
-
White Papers
PADS: A Policy Architecture for Distributed Storage Systems
Mar 2009
This paper presents PADS, a policy architecture for building distributed storage systems. A policy architecture has two aspects. First, a common set of mechanisms that allow new systems to be...
Provided by University of Texas
-
White Papers
Storage and Retrieval of Large RDF Graph Using Hadoop and MapReduce
Nov 2009
Handling huge amount of data scalably is a matter of concern for a long time. Same is true for semantic web data. Current semantic web frameworks lack this ability. This paper describes a...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
-
Whitepapers
Storage Care, Backup Care and Utility Vaulting Services
Nov 2008
Recognizing customers must leverage existing storage infrastructure, Savvis offers Storage Care management services to monitor and manage certain storage arrays (3PAR, Hitachi Data Systems and...
Provided by SAVVIS
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White Papers
Data Caching in Networks With Reading, Writing and Storage Costs
May 2009
Caching can significantly improve the efficiency of information access in networks by reducing the access latency and bandwidth/energy usage. However, caching in too many nodes can take up too...
Provided by Wichita State University
-
Whitepapers
A Recovery Conscious Framework for Fault Resilient Storage Systems
Sep 2008
This paper presents a recovery?]conscious framework for improving the fault resiliency and recovery efficiency of highly concurrent embedded storage software systems. The framework consists of a...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Enhancing Storage System Availability on Multi-Core Architectures With Recovery-Conscious Scheduling
Jan 2008
This paper develops a recovery conscious frame-work for multi-core architectures and a suite of techniques for improving the resiliency and recovery efficiency of highly concurrent embedded...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Object Storage on CRAQ: High-Throughput Chain Replication for Read-Mostly Workloads
Apr 2009
Massive storage systems typically replicate and partition data over many potentially-faulty components to provide both reliability and scalability. Yet many commercially deployed systems,...
Provided by Princeton University
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White Papers
Storage Strategies - Keeping It Simple
Jan 2011
There is a perception that storage is now relatively simple. Although data volumes are rising rapidly, hardware costs continue to tumble, and any problem can be solved by just throwing more disks...
Provided by Quocirca
-
White Papers
FlashVM: Revisiting the Virtual Memory Hierarchy
Apr 2009
Flash memory is the largest change to storage in recent history. Most research to date has focused on integrating flash as persistent storage in file systems, with little emphasis on virtual...
Provided by University of Wisconsin
-
White Papers
Modeling the Performance and Energy of Storage Arrays
Sep 2010
This paper proposes a novel framework for evaluating techniques for power optimization in storage. Given an arbitrary trace of disk requests, the authors split it into short time intervals,...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
-
White Papers
Failure Analysis of SGI XFS File System
Jan 2011
Commodity file systems expect a fail stop disk. But to-days disks fail in unexpected ways. Disks exhibit latent sector errors, silent corruption and transient failures to name a few. In this paper...
Provided by University of Wisconsin
-
White Papers
Depletable Storage Systems
Jun 2010
Depletable storage systems use media such as NAND flash that has a limited lifetime, which decreases with more usage. Such systems treat write cycles, in addition to space, as a constrained...
Provided by Microsoft
-
Case Studies
Maintaining Disk Capacity and Looking Ahead to the Next Five Years to Support Expansion of Gas Appliance Leasing at Reduced Cost Using Entry-Level Storage "ETERNUS DX60"
Jan 2011
Natural gas has become a focus as a clean energy that helps achieve a low-carbon society. Natural gas wanted to maintain disk capacity looking ahead to the next five years, while reducing costs....
Provided by Fujitsu
-
Case Studies
Thin Provisioning, Using ETERNUS Disk Storage Systems, Enabled Storage Use Optimization That Now Supports Stable Integrated Infrastructure Operation, as Well as Fast and Flexible Service Delivery
Jan 2011
Synform Co., Ltd. provides support to the Benesse group of companies using IT provisioning. Facing an increase in the number of servers, Synform configured an integrated infrastructure using blade...
Provided by Fujitsu
-
Case Studies
Building a Fast, Flexible Central SAN and Storage Infrastructure Management Resource for Swisscom IT Services
May 2009
The goal of the collaboration between Swisscom IT Services and Hitachi Data Systems was to build a central, server-independent SAN and storage infrastructure management resource. Swisscom IT...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
-
White Papers
Energy Storage for the Electricity Grid: Benefits and Market Potential Assessment Guide
Feb 2010
This guide describes a high-level, technology-neutral framework for assessing potential benefits from and economic market potential for energy storage used for electric-utility-related...
Provided by Distributed Utility Associates
-
White Papers
Energy-Efficient Storage in Virtual Machine Environments
Jul 2010
Current trends in increasing storage capacity and virtualization of resources combined with the need for energy efficiency put a challenging task in front of system designers. Previous studies...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Drive-Thru: Fast, Accurate Evaluation of Storage Power Management
Jan 2010
Running traces of realistic user activity is an important step in evaluating storage power management. Unfortunately, existing methodologies that replay traces as fast as possible on a live system...
Provided by University of Michigan
-
White Papers
Network Coding for Distributed Storage Systems
Mar 2010
Distributed storage systems provide reliable access to data through redundancy spread over individually unreliable nodes. Application scenarios include data centers, peer-to-peer storage systems,...
Provided by University of Southern California
-
White Papers
Design of an Intelligent Object-Based Storage Device
Aug 2009
Intelligent storage systems were an active area of research in later half of last decade. The idea was to improve the throughput of data intensive applications from database and image processing...
Provided by Ohio State University
-
White Papers
Availability in Global Peer-to-Peer Storage Systems
Jan 2010
The recent popularity of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems for file sharing has led to increased demand for higher data availability from such systems. Measurements of popular P2P systems indicate that a...
Provided by Santa Clara University
-
White Papers
Implicit Advantages Accrue to Integrated Storage Management Suites
Jun 2008
Hitachi Storage Command Suite is an integrated product that is based on extensive research into current and future market directions as well as pain-point feedback from users. While the suite...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
-
White Papers
ZL UNIFIED ARCHIVE Storage Vs. Records Management
Sep 2009
Storage Management involves gaining cost and performance efficiencies from offloading data to lower-tier storage and/or deduplication. Most often, storage management on e-mail systems involves the...
Provided by ZL Technologies
-
Whitepapers
Evolution of Storage Management: Transforming Raw Data Into Information
Sep 2008
Exponential growth in storage requirements and an increasing number of heterogeneous devices and application policies are making enterprise storage management a nightmare for administrators....
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Intel Solid-State Drive Optimizer
Dec 2009
Today, when a user deletes a file from their system, the host only deletes a pointer in the OS file system. This action does not physically erase the data from the drive. While the deleted data no...
Provided by Intel
-
White Papers
Secure and Dependable Distributed Data Storage and Access Control in Mission-Critical Wireless Sensor Networks
Feb 2009
Distributed data storage and access in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) recently has found increased popularity driven by many mission-critical applications. While WSN security has been extensively...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-
Podcasts
How Do I: Use Isolated Storage in SL3 Out of Browser?
Nov 2010
Microsoft Silverlight 3 introduced the capability for a Silverlight application to be installed locally on a user's machine. It would be beneficial to also have access to some amount of storage on...
Provided by Microsoft
-
Podcasts
TechNet Ramp Up: Exchange 2010: Compliance: Archiving and Retention
Oct 2010
This podcast helps them to learn about Exchange 2010 compliance archiving and retention. After completing this module, the will have learned about, Information Worker (IW) experience IT pro...
Provided by Microsoft
-
Case Studies
Calculating the ROI and Cost Savings of a Move to Tiered Storage by Fidelity National Information Services
Oct 2009
Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), a respected FORTUNE 500 firm in the financial and insurance sector. Fidelity National Information Services faced a number of infrastructure...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
-
Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: iT-AUSTRIA
May 2010
Informations-Technologie Austria, or iTAUSTRIA as it is known internationally, was formed in 1998 to consolidate and enhance the computer operations of Austria's three major Banks: Bank Austria...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
-
Case Studies
A Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services Data Migration and Storage Reclamation Engagement
Apr 2009
One of the world's leading Global Financial Institutions (GFI), distressed by the economic downturn and challenged with increasing shareholder value, was looking for ways to optimize its data...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
-
Case Studies
Building a Fast, Flexible Central SAN and Storage Infrastructure Management Resource for Swisscom IT Services
May 2009
The goal of the collaboration between Swisscom IT Services and Hitachi Data Systems was to build a central, server-independent SAN and storage infrastructure management resource. Swisscom IT...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
-
Case Studies
Thin Provisioning, Using ETERNUS Disk Storage Systems, Enabled Storage Use Optimization That Now Supports Stable Integrated Infrastructure Operation, as Well as Fast and Flexible Service Delivery
Jan 2011
Synform Co., Ltd. provides support to the Benesse group of companies using IT provisioning. Facing an increase in the number of servers, Synform configured an integrated infrastructure using blade...
Provided by Fujitsu
-
Case Studies
Maintaining Disk Capacity and Looking Ahead to the Next Five Years to Support Expansion of Gas Appliance Leasing at Reduced Cost Using Entry-Level Storage "ETERNUS DX60"
Jan 2011
Natural gas has become a focus as a clean energy that helps achieve a low-carbon society. Natural gas wanted to maintain disk capacity looking ahead to the next five years, while reducing costs....
Provided by Fujitsu
-
White Papers
Depletable Storage Systems
Jun 2010
Depletable storage systems use media such as NAND flash that has a limited lifetime, which decreases with more usage. Such systems treat write cycles, in addition to space, as a constrained...
Provided by Microsoft
-
White Papers
Failure Analysis of SGI XFS File System
Jan 2011
Commodity file systems expect a fail stop disk. But to-days disks fail in unexpected ways. Disks exhibit latent sector errors, silent corruption and transient failures to name a few. In this paper...
Provided by University of Wisconsin
-
White Papers
Modeling the Performance and Energy of Storage Arrays
Sep 2010
This paper proposes a novel framework for evaluating techniques for power optimization in storage. Given an arbitrary trace of disk requests, the authors split it into short time intervals,...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
-
White Papers
FlashVM: Revisiting the Virtual Memory Hierarchy
Apr 2009
Flash memory is the largest change to storage in recent history. Most research to date has focused on integrating flash as persistent storage in file systems, with little emphasis on virtual...
Provided by University of Wisconsin
-
White Papers
Storage Strategies - Keeping It Simple
Jan 2011
There is a perception that storage is now relatively simple. Although data volumes are rising rapidly, hardware costs continue to tumble, and any problem can be solved by just throwing more disks...
Provided by Quocirca
-
White Papers
Object Storage on CRAQ: High-Throughput Chain Replication for Read-Mostly Workloads
Apr 2009
Massive storage systems typically replicate and partition data over many potentially-faulty components to provide both reliability and scalability. Yet many commercially deployed systems,...
Provided by Princeton University
-
Whitepapers
Enhancing Storage System Availability on Multi-Core Architectures With Recovery-Conscious Scheduling
Jan 2008
This paper develops a recovery conscious frame-work for multi-core architectures and a suite of techniques for improving the resiliency and recovery efficiency of highly concurrent embedded...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
A Recovery Conscious Framework for Fault Resilient Storage Systems
Sep 2008
This paper presents a recovery?]conscious framework for improving the fault resiliency and recovery efficiency of highly concurrent embedded storage software systems. The framework consists of a...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Data Caching in Networks With Reading, Writing and Storage Costs
May 2009
Caching can significantly improve the efficiency of information access in networks by reducing the access latency and bandwidth/energy usage. However, caching in too many nodes can take up too...
Provided by Wichita State University
-
Whitepapers
Storage Care, Backup Care and Utility Vaulting Services
Nov 2008
Recognizing customers must leverage existing storage infrastructure, Savvis offers Storage Care management services to monitor and manage certain storage arrays (3PAR, Hitachi Data Systems and...
Provided by SAVVIS
-
White Papers
Storage and Retrieval of Large RDF Graph Using Hadoop and MapReduce
Nov 2009
Handling huge amount of data scalably is a matter of concern for a long time. Same is true for semantic web data. Current semantic web frameworks lack this ability. This paper describes a...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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PADS: A Policy Architecture for Distributed Storage Systems
Mar 2009
This paper presents PADS, a policy architecture for building distributed storage systems. A policy architecture has two aspects. First, a common set of mechanisms that allow new systems to be...
Provided by University of Texas
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Exploiting Half-Wits: Smarter Storage for Low-Power Devices
Dec 2010
This work analyzes the stochastic behavior of writing to embedded flash memory at voltages lower than recommended by a microcontroller's specifications to reduce energy consumption. Flash memory...
Provided by University of Massachusetts
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Probabilistic Failure Detection for Efficient Distributed Storage Maintenance
Jul 2008
Distributed storage systems often use data replication to mask failures and guarantee high data availability. Node failures can be transient or permanent. While the system must generate new...
Provided by Microsoft
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Priority Random Linear Codes in Distributed Storage Systems
Nov 2008
One of the most important challenges in fully autonomous networks, including Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks and wireless sensor networks, has been the dynamic behavior of peer nodes and sensors....
Provided by University of Toronto
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FS2You: Peer-Assisted Semi-Persistent Online Storage at a Large Scale
Jan 2009
It has been widely acknowledged that online storage systems within the "Cloud" of the Internet provide services of a substantial value to end users who wish to share files of any sizes within a...
Provided by University of Toronto
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Managing Thermal Emergencies in Disk-Based Storage Systems
Dec 2008
Thermal-aware design of disk-drives is important because high temperatures can cause reliability problems. Dynamic Thermal Management (DTM) techniques have been proposed to operate the disk at the...
Provided by ASME International
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MIDAS: An Execution-Driven Simulator for Active Storage Architectures
May 2008
Many applications today are highly data intensive and have stringent performance requirements. In order to meet the performance demands of these applications, the authors need to optimize both the...
Provided by University of Virginia
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HBA: Distributed Metadata Management for Large Cluster-Based Storage Systems
Mar 2008
An efficient and distributed scheme for file mapping or file lookup is critical in decentralizing metadata management within a group of metadata servers. This paper presents a novel technique...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Increasing the Information Density of Storage Systems Using the Precision-Resolution Paradigm
Jan 2011
The (d, k) RLL system is perhaps the most commonly used constraint, appearing in various contexts and applications, including (but not restricted to) magnetic and optical storage, holographic...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Buffer Coding for Asymmetric Multi-Level Memory
Jan 2011
Certain storage media such as flash memories use write-asymmetric, multi-level storage elements. In such media, data is stored in a multi-level memory cell the contents of which can only be...
Provided by California Institute of Technology
