Personal electronic devices that include a large amount of storage are increasingly common. Already, many households use multiple mobile phones, digital cameras, MP3 players and gaming devices, in addition to desktop and notebook computers. Today, users must individually manage these devices to ensure the durability and availability of the data they store. Ensuring that data is durable, or regu...

virtual datasets, which are transparently translated to storage access requests to objects (of an object based storage), iSCSI or FS files. The generalized storage entity maps all access requests (directly or via device independent mechanism) to a conventional block controller, which in turn uses RAID for error correction and reliability,

A simple model of the storage hierarchies is formulated with the assumptions that the effect of the storage management strategy is characterized by the hit ratio fqnction. The hit ratio function and the device technology-cost function are assumed to be representable by power functions (or piece-wise power functions). The optimization of this model is a geometric programming problem. An explicit...

The use of portable storage devices such as key-chain USB devices is now ubiquitous. Many use these devices with impunity–repeatedly using the same storage device in open computer laboratories, Internet cafes, and on office and home computers. Such devices are now the target of malware that exploit the data present or use them as a means to propagate malicious software, e.g., Conficker and Agen...