A Survey of In-Network Storage Systems

2011 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Storage Systems ◽  
Network Storage

Institutional Metadata and the Problem of Context

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-34
Author(s):  
Jane Birkin
Keyword(s):  
Keyword Search ◽  
Storage Systems ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Network Storage ◽  
Visual Content ◽  
Network Culture ◽  
Evidential Value ◽  
Original Order ◽  
Context Free ◽  
Shutter Time

Abstract The traditional archive catalogue constitutes a form of structural and descriptive metadata that long precedes the internet; and the cataloguing of photographs is just one part of a process of archival administration. The application of keywords to images contrasts with archival prose description, which is based on the visual content of the image and is predominantly context-free; a remediation of the image itself. At the heart of this lies the notion that the single photograph is itself devoid of context; it is a discrete embodiment of shutter time and there is nothing certain either side of that. Thus, one can only speculate at its context, and institutional description techniques actively avoid such speculation. Yet context in the archive is ever-present and key to the function of images as objects of information and evidence. It is built through static relationships, through the situating of photographs in accordance with the concept of original order, and it is replicated through storage systems and hierarchical catalogue entries. Such orders, hierarchies and relationships are absent within sets of images that are brought together by keyword search, including through the websites of archival institutions that struggle to reconcile archival principles and identity with network culture. Images are transported to places where contextual information is at best difficult to access, especially for those unfamiliar with archival interfaces. In contrast to the controlled stasis of archival storage and interconnected recordkeeping systems, network storage is messy, unstable and poorly described. However, we must accept that context is not a prerequisite for many users, and for them the networking of archival images denotes a freedom; a democratisation of the archive. But in a media-driven society that is becoming more and more indifferent to the evidential value of documents of any kind, the context-free image is left predisposed to exploitation.

scholarly journals ALGORITHMS FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE, WIDE-AREA DISTRIBUTED FILE DOWNLOADS

2003 ◽  
Vol 13 (02) ◽  
pp. 207-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAMES S. PLANK ◽  
SCOTT ATCHLEY ◽  
YING DING ◽  
MICAH BECK
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Storage Systems ◽  
Wide Area ◽  
Network Storage ◽  
Excellent Performance ◽  
Network Resource ◽  
Storage Model ◽  
Media Player ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Different Parts

As peer-to-peer and wide-area storage systems become in vogue, the issue of delivering content that is cached, partitioned and replicated in the wide area, with high performance, becomes of great importance. This paper explores three algorithms for such downloads. The storage model is based on the Network Storage Stack, which allows for flexible sharing and utilization of writable storage as a network resource. The algorithms assume that data is replicated in various storage depots in the wide area, and the data must be delivered to the client either as a downloaded file or as a stream to be consumed by an application, such as a media player. The algorithms are threaded and adaptive, attempting to get good performance from nearby replicas, while still utilizing the faraway replicas. After defining the algorithms, we explore their performance downloading a 50 MB file replicated on six storage depots in the U.S., Europe and Asia, to two clients in different parts of the U.S. One algorithm, called progress-driven redundancy, exhibits excellent performance characteristics for both file and streaming downloads.

Rack-Aware Architecture for Reliable Cloud Systems

2012 ◽  
Vol 433-440 ◽  
pp. 5861-5865
Author(s):  
Zhen Huang ◽  
Yuan Yuan ◽  
Yu Xing Peng
Keyword(s):  
System Design ◽  
Cloud Storage ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Fault Tolerant ◽  
Storage Systems ◽  
Network Storage ◽  
Cloud Systems ◽  
Large Scale Network ◽  
Scale Network ◽  
The Common

The ever-growing demand on information and data requires the efficient architecture for large-scale network storage systems. To serve very large scale applications, using inexpensive commodity becomes the common selection in nowadays cloud storage systems. Based on such unreliable hardware, building fault-tolerant mechanism is key issue to the system design. In this paper, we propose a rack-aware architecture for cloud storage systems.

scholarly journals NETWORK STORAGE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS

1995 ◽  
Vol 19 (S_1_MORIS_94) ◽  
pp. S1_59-64
Author(s):  
A.E. BELL
Keyword(s):  
Storage Systems ◽  
Network Storage
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