Applying Amdahl's other law to the data center
IBM Journal of Research and Development
A comparison of secure multi-tenancy architectures for filesystem storage clouds
Middleware'11 Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IFIP/USENIX international conference on Middleware
A comparison of secure multi-tenancy architectures for filesystem storage clouds
Proceedings of the 12th International Middleware Conference
Zone-based data striping for cloud storage
IBM Journal of Research and Development
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This paper focuses on the challenges of creating a scalable network-attached storage (NAS) filer with hundreds of nodes on top of the IBM General Parallel File System™ (GPFS™). The filer is created as a multiheaded data exporter over Ethernet and uses the Common Internet File System (CIFS) as implemented by the Samba open-source project and a Network File System (NFS) protocol server. Special focus is given to ensure the consistency of data in an efficient manner for applications that have complex access patterns from a large number of nodes. Also considered are the challenges of providing an extremely high-performance facility for exporting data in parallel and the demands of storing very large amounts of data. Introducing new aspects of storage management--such as storage pools and fle sets as they are implemented in current file systems--into NAS appliances enables the management of large amounts of data in a single namespace.