Traveling to Rome: A retrospective on the journey

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 10-15

  Wilkes, John ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Attribute based storage; Declarative system management; Solvers; Storage management; Storage performance models

Indexed keywords

HP LABS; LONG JOURNEY; STORAGE DEVICES; STORAGE MANAGEMENT; STORAGE PERFORMANCE; STORAGE SYSTEMS; SYSTEM MANAGEMENT;

SPECIFICATION LANGUAGES;

SPECIFICATIONS;

EID: 77952244603     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1496909.1496914     Document Type: Conference Paper

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