Storage fusion

  • Authors:
  • Masaru Kitsuregawa;Kazuo Goda;Takashi Hoshino

  • Affiliations:
  • The University of Tokyo;The University of Tokyo;The University of Tokyo

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Ubiquitous information management and communication
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

So far, the core component of the IT system was absolutely a server, and the storage was recognized as its peripheral. The recent evolution of device and network technologies has enabled storage consolidation, by which all the data and its related simple software codes can be placed in one place. Storage centric designs are being deployed into many enterprise systems. The role of the storage should be reconsidered. This paper presents activities of the Storage Fusion Project, a five-year research and development project. Storage Fusion is an idea of elegant deep collaboration between storage and database servers. Two substantial works are presented in this paper. First, the exploitation of query execution plans enables dynamically informed prefetching, accordingly boosting ad-hoc queries significantly. Second, the idea of putting autonomic database reorganization into the storage has the potential benefit of relieving the management burdens of database structural deterioration.