Network attached storage architecture
Communications of the ACM
NAS Switch: A Novel CIFS Server Virtualization
MSS '03 Proceedings of the 20 th IEEE/11 th NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSS'03)
Concept and Evaluation of X-NAS: A Highly Scalable NAS System
MSS '03 Proceedings of the 20 th IEEE/11 th NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSS'03)
Storage Systems: Not Just a Bunch of Disks Anymore
Queue - Storage
The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations
International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications
A heterogeneous storage grid enabled by grid service
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Grid-Oriented Storage: A Single-Image, Cross-Domain, High-Bandwidth Architecture
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Globus toolkit version 4: software for service-oriented systems
NPC'05 Proceedings of the 2005 IFIP international conference on Network and Parallel Computing
Performance considerations for mobile web services
Computer Communications
Exploring the performance impact of stripe size on network attached storage systems
Journal of Systems Architecture: the EUROMICRO Journal
Ant colony optimization inspired resource discovery in P2P Grid systems
The Journal of Supercomputing
Storage administration: field findings and software design guidelines
Proceedings of the Symposium on Computer Human Interaction for the Management of Information Technology
LAG: Achieving transparent access to legacy data by leveraging grid environment
Future Generation Computer Systems
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The explosive growth of data generated worldwide by information digitization has been identified as the key driver of storage system evolution. In this paper, we discuss the existing storage system architectures and pose the challenges they are facing. Drawing inspiration from Grid computing community, we propose to design a storage Grid enabled by Grid service which can solve the scalability and heterogeneity problems. However, the challenging Internet involved in the storage Grid incurs some emerging problems including the limited network performance, the unstable network environment, and etc. The Grid service involved in the storage Grid introduces much larger overhead which may result in low performance and inefficient utilization of storage resources. Because Grid service is designed for loosely coupled systems, we argue that the storage Grid can employ Grid service as a glue to manage, monitor and locate the Internet-scale storage resources which are transparent to users, while still adopting binary code to transfer data to maintain the performance. Some other solutions which may alleviate the performance pressure of Grid service and increase the efficiency of storage resource utilization are discussed as well.