CAPO: Recapitulating storage for virtual desktops

Proceedings of FAST 2011: 9th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 31-45

  Shamma, Mohammad ^a   Meyer, Dutch T ^a   Wires, Jake ^a   Ivanova, Maria ^a   Hutchinson, Norman C ^a   Warfield, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PRIVACY; USER INTERFACES; VIRTUAL MACHINE;

DISK IMAGES; FILE SYSTEMS; PRELOADING; SHARED STORAGE; VIRTUAL DESKTOPS; WRITE-BACK;

DIGITAL STORAGE;

EID: 85077025187     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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