It is well‐known that Reed‐Solomon codes may be used to provide error correction for
multiple failures in RAID‐like systems. The coding technique itself, however, is not as well …

Data sets in large applications are often too massive to fit completely inside the computers
internal memory. The resulting input/output communication (or I/O) between fast internal …

It is a challenge to ensure data integrity for cloud-based Internet of Things (IoT) applications
because of the inherently dynamic nature of IoT data. The available frameworks of data …

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 …

Current hardware and application storage trends put immense pressure on the operating
system's storage subsystem. On the hardware side, the market for storage devices has …

Facebook's corpus of photos, videos, and other Binary Large OBjects (BLOBs) that need to
be reliably stored and quickly accessible is massive and continues to grow. As the footprint …

Information retrieval (IR) has changed considerably in recent years with the expansion of the
World Wide Web and the advent of modern and inexpensive graphical user interfaces and …

Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Fifth Edition, explores the ways that
software and technology in the cloud are accessed by digital media, such as cell phones …

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Multiple applications request data from multiple Storage units over a computer network. The
data is divided into Segments and each Segment is distributed randomly on one of Several …