Abstract
The rapid development of the Internet, fast drop of storage cost, and the great improvement of storage capacity have created an environment with an enormous amount of digital data. In addition to the traditional goals like performance, scalability, availability, and reliability, other challenges including manageability, searching for the desired information, energy efficiency, long-term data preservation, and data security become increasingly important for storage systems. We first present the evolution path of the past development of storage systems. The impact of the advancement of disk technology on fault tolerance Is discussed next. The potential solutions and research issues of the new challenges are also briefly discussed.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Article number | 4694035 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1875-1886 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Proceedings of the IEEE |
| Volume | 96 |
| Issue number | 11 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 2008 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Manuscript received December 15, 2007; revised February 13, 2008. Current version published December 2, 2008. This work was supported in part by NSI Grant 0621462. The author is with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA.
Funding Information:
This work was partially supported by NSI Grant 0621462.
Keywords
- Disk technology
- File systems
- Intelligent storage
- Object-based storage device (OSD)
