The placement optimization program: a practical solution to the disk file assignment problem
SIGMETRICS '89 Proceedings of the 1989 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
IBM Systems Journal
Comparative Models of the File Assignment Problem
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Approximation algorithms for data placement in arbitrary networks
SODA '01 Proceedings of the twelfth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms
Minerva: An automated resource provisioning tool for large-scale storage systems
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Machine Learning
Hippodrome: Running Circles Around Storage Administration
FAST '02 Proceedings of the Conference on File and Storage Technologies
Traveling to Rome: QoS Specifications for Automated Storage System Management
IWQoS '01 Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Quality of Service
An improved hybrid genetic algorithm for the generalized assignment problem
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Issues and Challenges in the Performance Analysis of Real Disk Arrays
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
An Artificial Intelligence Perspective on Autonomic Computing Policies
POLICY '04 Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks
Efficient Byzantine-Tolerant Erasure-Coded Storage
DSN '04 Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
FAB: building distributed enterprise disk arrays from commodity components
ASPLOS XI Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Balancing Risk and Reward in a Market-Based Task Service
HPDC '04 Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
Utility Functions in Autonomic Systems
ICAC '04 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomic Computing
Hibernator: helping disk arrays sleep through the winter
Proceedings of the twentieth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
FAST '04 Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
Quickly finding near-optimal storage designs
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Designing dependable storage solutions for shared application environments
DSN '06 Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
On the road to recovery: restoring data after disasters
Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Conference on Computer Systems 2006
Ursa minor: versatile cluster-based storage
FAST'05 Proceedings of the 4th conference on USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies - Volume 4
Modeling the relative fitness of storage
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Disk failures in the real world: what does an MTTF of 1,000,000 hours mean to you?
FAST '07 Proceedings of the 5th USENIX conference on File and Storage Technologies
Failure trends in a large disk drive population
FAST '07 Proceedings of the 5th USENIX conference on File and Storage Technologies
PARAID: A gear-shifting power-aware RAID
ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS)
Informed data distribution selection in a self-predicting storage system
ICAC '06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing
Migrating server storage to SSDs: analysis of tradeoffs
Proceedings of the 4th ACM European conference on Computer systems
CA-NFS: a congestion-aware network file system
FAST '09 Proccedings of the 7th conference on File and storage technologies
CA-NFS: A congestion-aware network file system
ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS)
Everest: scaling down peak loads through I/O off-loading
OSDI'08 Proceedings of the 8th USENIX conference on Operating systems design and implementation
The SCADS director: scaling a distributed storage system under stringent performance requirements
FAST'11 Proceedings of the 9th USENIX conference on File and stroage technologies
Cost effective storage using extent based dynamic tiering
FAST'11 Proceedings of the 9th USENIX conference on File and stroage technologies
Italian for beginners: the next steps for SLO-based management
HotStorage'11 Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX conference on Hot topics in storage and file systems
Optimizing queries to remote resources
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
ZZFS: a hybrid device and cloud file system for spontaneous users
FAST'12 Proceedings of the 10th USENIX conference on File and Storage Technologies
Taming parallel I/O complexity with auto-tuning
SC '13 Proceedings of the International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
Predicting intermediate storage performance for workflow applications
PDSW '13 Proceedings of the 8th Parallel Data Storage Workshop
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Provisioning a storage system requires balancing the costs of the solution with the benefits that the solution will provide. Previous provisioning approaches have started with a fixed set of requirements and the goal of automatically finding minimum cost solutions to meet them. Such approaches neglect the cost-benefit analysis of the purchasing decision. Purchasing a storage system involves an extensive set of trade-offs between metrics such as purchase cost, performance, reliability, availability, power, etc. Increases in one metric have consequences for others, and failing to account for these trade-offs can lead to a poor return on the storage investment. Using a collection of storage acquisition and provisioning scenarios, we show that utility functions enable this cost-benefit structure to be conveyed to an automated provisioning tool, enabling the tool to make appropriate trade-offs between different system metrics including performance, data protection, and purchase cost.