As data-intensive, network-based applications proliferate, the power consumed by the data-
center storage subsystem surges. This survey summarizes, organizes, and integrates a …

During the past ten years, the energy consumption problem in cloud-related environments
has attracted substantial attention in research and industrial communities. Researchers …

Deduplicating in-line data on primary storage is hampered by the disk bottleneck problem,
an issue which results from the need to keep an index map** portions of data to hash …

Recent technological advancements have enabled a generation of Ultra-Low Latency (ULL)
SSDs that blurs the performance gap between primary and secondary storage devices …

Workload variations on Internet platforms such as YouTube, Flickr, LastFM require novel
approaches to dynamic resource provisioning in order to meet QoS requirements, while …

The scope of archival systems is expanding beyond cheap tertiary storage: scientific and
medical data is increasingly digital, and the public has a growing desire to digitally record …

Power consumption has become an important factor in modern storage system design.
Power efficiency is particularly beneficial in disk-based backup systems that store mostly …

Cloud computing has gained popularity in recent years delivering various services as cost-
effective platforms. However, the increasing energy consumption needs to be addressed in …

Infrastructures serving on-line applications experience dynamic workload variations
depending on diverse factors such as popularity, marketing, periodic patterns, fads, trends …

Identifying groups of blocks that tend to be read or written together in a given environment is
the first step towards powerful techniques for device failure isolation and power …