Building a distributed block storage system for cloud infrastructure

Proceedings - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, CloudCom 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 312-318

  Gao, Xiaoming ^a   Ma, Yu ^a   Pierce, Marlon ^a   Lowe, Mike ^a   Fox, Geoffrey ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCK STORAGE SYSTEMS; CLUSTER FILE SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURE; ELASTIC BLOCKS; FILE SYSTEMS; METADATA MANAGEMENT; SERVER ARCHITECTURE; SINGLE POINT; SMALL FILES; VIRTUAL-MACHINE MANAGERS; WORK-FLOWS;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FILE ORGANIZATION; MANAGEMENT; METADATA; SCALABILITY;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 79952433983     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CloudCom.2010.72     Document Type: Conference Paper

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