A content delivery network (CDN) is a distributed infrastructure to deliver digital contents to
end users with high performance. CDNs are critical to provide and protect the availability of …

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 …

The sharing of caches among Web proxies is an important technique to reduce Web traffic
and alleviate network bottlenecks. Nevertheless it is not widely deployed due to the …

OceanStore is a utility infrastructure designed to span the globe and provide continuous
access to persistent information. Since this infrastructure is comprised of untrusted servers …

This paper describes Haystack, an object storage system optimized for Facebook's Photos
application. Facebook currently stores over 260 billion images, which translates to over 20 …

The delivery of video content is expected to gain huge momentum, fueled by the popularity
of user-generated clips, growth of VoD libraries, and wide-spread deployment of IPTV …

Resource-disaggregated architectures have risen in popularity for large datacenters.
However, prior disaggregation systems are designed for native applications; in addition, all …

In enterprise data centers power usage is a problem impacting server density and the total
cost of ownership. Storage uses a significant fraction of the power budget and there are no …

Analysis of technology and application trends reveals a growing imbalance in the peak
compute-to-memory-capacity ratio for future servers. At the same time, the fraction …

A new RAID-x (redundant array of inexpensive disks at level x) architecture is presented for
distributed I/O processing on a serverless cluster of computers. The RAID-x architecture is …