High-performance network and channel-based storage

The technology trends underlying high-performance network-based storage, namely, advances in networks, storage devices, and I/O controller and server architectures, are discussed. The emphasis is on the integration of storage and network services and the challenges of managing the complex storage hierarchy of the future: file caches, online disk storage, nearline data libraries, and offline archives. Several commercial systems and research prototypes that are leading to a new approach to high-performance computing based on network-attached storage are reviewed.<
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