The increasing capacity of storage media could store a huge amount of data while the price per Gigabyte is decreasing. On the other hand users and companies produce much more information that still overruns the available storage capacities. As a consequence, the management and storage of this data is very complex and expensive. Users and apps want to access their files directly and without any ...

Information storage systems are the bedrock on which a modern company rests: data has to be available to whoever needs it, whenever they need it, from wherever they may be. As a result, emphasis is beginning to shift from a processorcentric view of the world towards an storage-centric one: it is the information that holds the real value the processing merely exposes it. Realizing this model req...

As an efficient alternative to fossil fuels, renewable energy sources have attained great attention due to their sustainable, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly characteristic. However, as a deficiency, renewable energy sources have low reliability because of their non-deterministic and stochastic generation pattern. The use of hybrid renewable generation systems along with the storag...

Big data storage management is one of the most challenging issues for Grid computing environments, since large amount of data intensive applications frequently involve a high degree of data access locality. Grid applications typically deal with large amounts of data. In traditional approaches high-performance computing consists dedicated servers that are used to data storage and data replicatio...

Big data storage management is one of the most challenging issues for Grid computing environments, since large amount of data intensive applications frequently involve a high degree of data access locality. Grid applications typically deal with large amounts of data. In traditional approaches high-performance computing consists dedicated servers that are used to data storage and data replicatio...

Flash devices are emerging as a replacement for disks. How does this evolution impact the design of data management systems? While flash devices have been available for years, this question is still open. In this tutorial, we share two views on the development of data management systems for flash devices. The first view considers that flash devices introduce so much complexity that it is necess...

The number of company data deposited in hierarchical storage management systems heavily increases. Thus, new approaches are necessary to keep track of a data pool. This paper introduces a semantic storage extension (SSE) for existing hierarchical storage management systems that allows them to exploit semantic relations between files and use them for a more efficient and more intelligent data ma...

As an effective means of displacing fossil fuel consumption and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) have attracted more and more attentions. From the power grid perspective, PHEVs and PEVs equipped with batteries can also be used as energy storage facilities, due to the fact that, these vehicles are parked most of the ...

Hierarchical storage management systems provide a cost-effective way of dealing with the large mounts of digital assets now capable of being injected into command and control systems. The role of Hierarchical Storage Management (IISM) software and Asset Management System (AMS) in imagery management is described. A discrete event simulation model of a prototypical imagery asset storage managemen...