Today, the paradigm shift in storage architectures from directattached storage to storage area network and network-attached storage, and to emerging standards such as iSCSI, has a strong impact on the requirements for storage management software. The managed storage resources could be disks (from a few disks to a large disk subsystem) or tapes (from a single tape drive to large automated tape l...

abstract: water quality of dam storage is highly affected by upstream environment and basin. regarding other conducted studies, there exist various reasons such as some studies and general monitoring of dams which cause some main problems including salinity, chemical and microbial pollution eutrophication, and sedimentation. chame-gardalan storage dam in ilam province is one of the storages whi...

Introduction 86 Factors Affecting Longevity of Seeds 86 Seed Characteristics 86 Basic seed physiology 86 Seed morphology 88 Chemical composition 88 Seed maturity 89 Seed Handling Prior to Storage 89 Storage Environment 89 Moisture 89 Temperature 90 Atmosphere 91 Storage Facilities 92 Cold storage 92 Containers 92 Moisture Control 93 Storage Recommendation 93 Orthodox Seeds 93 Temperate-Recalcit...

Recent developments in the SCSI-3 standard make it possible for a storage system to develop performance management strategies based, in part, upon the relative importance of competing applications. The compelling benefits of such management, applied to physical disks, were the subject of a companion paper, presented one year ago. The present paper extends this discussion to another key storage ...

Flash memory is gaining great popularity in both embedded and enterprise systems. Compared to legacy hard drives, flash devices get rid of mechanical components and significantly improve performance. However, flash memory is not merely a faster storage media, and its characteristics provide opportunities of new storage system designs. In this paper, we summarize disruptive techniques on flash s...

MPEG-7 is a promising standard for the description of multimedia content. A lot of applications based on MPEG-7 media descriptions have been set up. Therefore, an efficient storage solution for large amounts of MPEG-7 descriptions are certainly desirable. MPEG-7 documents are also data-centric XML documents. Due to many advantages, the relational DBMS is the best choice for storing such XML doc...