Flash memory based solid state drives (SSDs) have shown a great potential to change
storage infrastructure fundamentally through their high performance and low power. Most …

Over the last decade we have witnessed the relentless technological improvement in flash-
based solidstate drives (SSDs) and they have many advantages over hard disk drives …

We introduce Skylight, a novel methodology that combines software and hardware
techniques to reverse engineer key properties of drive-managed Shingled Magnetic …

A unique merit of a solid-state drive (SSD) is its internal parallelism. In this article, we
present a set of comprehensive studies on understanding and exploiting internal parallelism …

Facebook uses flash devices extensively in its photo caching stack. The key design
challenge for an efficient photo cache on flash at Facebook is its workload: many small …

Although flash storage has largely replaced hard disks in consumer class devices,
enterprise workloads pose unique challenges that have slowed adoption of flash …

The increasing volume of time-based generated data and the shift in storage technologies
suggest that we might need to reconsider indexing. Several workloads-like social and …

This paper presents a data-placement scheme for log-structured flash translation layers
(FTLs), with the dual aims of reducing write amplification due to garbage collection and flash …

During New York City's 2012 Thanksgiving Day parade, sensitive personal data rained from
the sky. Makeshift confetti, formed out of shredded police case reports and personnel fi les …

Data warehouses have been traditionally optimized for read-only query performance,
allowing only offline updates at night, essentially trading off data freshness for performance …