A brief survey of tertiary storage systems and research
SAC '97 Proceedings of the 1997 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Hierarchical data placement for navigational multimedia applications
Data & Knowledge Engineering
A simulated annealing approach for multimedia data placement
Journal of Systems and Software
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This report summarizes current state of the art in tertiary storage systems. We begin with a comprehensive discussion of magnetic tape and optical storage technologies. This is followed by a classification of commercial products based on their performance characteristics. Our analysis of product data indicates that in contrast to disk technology, tertiary storage products have significant variablility in terms of data transfer rates as well as other performance figures. We then summarize efforts in the areas of operating systems, databases and advanced applications to integrate tertiary storage. We point out that different assumptions about the underlying technology result in entirely different algorithms and system design. We conclude the report with a speculation of future trends.