The rapid increase in digital content, specially multimedia, calls now for standardization of Media Cloud and Inter-Cloud computing, for better provisioning of services. InterCloud computing faces some key challenges in terms of handling multimedia, which are discussed in this paper along with our research status towards their solutions. We also present InterCloud basic architecture and Media C...

We report experimental evidence that light storage, understood as the controlled release of a light pulse by an atomic sample dependent on the past presence of a writing pulse, is not restricted to small-group-velocity media but can also occur in a negative-group-velocity medium. We present a numerical modeling in close agreement with our observations and a simple physical picture applicable to...

Multimedia data is a form of data that can represent all types of data (images, sound and text). The use of multimedia data for the online application requires a more comprehensive database in the use of storage media, Sorting / indexing, search and system / data searching. This is necessary in order to help providers and users to access multimedia data online. Systems that use of the index ima...

The reliability and longevity of any storage medium is a key issue for archivists and preservationists as well as for the creators of important information. This is particularly true in the case of digital media such as DVD and CD where a sufficient number of errors may render the disc unreadable. This paper describes an initial stability study of commercially available recordable DVD and CD me...

The ever growing needs of large multimedia systems cannot be met by magnetic disks due to their high cost and low storage density. Consequently, cheaper and denser tertiary storage systems are being integrated into the storage hierarchies of these applications. Although tertiary storage is cheaper, the access latency is very high due to the need to load and unload media on the drives. This high...

This paper addresses media sharing via an approach that offers ‘fungible’ storage, where storage services implement virtual stores that are dynamically mapped to suitable ‘nearby’ or otherwise available physical devices. In particular, the novel VStore++ system provides seamless and flexible data storage, access, and sharing services, by exploiting virtualization technology to aggregate and mak...

A continuing trend in information storage is the desire for greater storage capacity, a feature that demands the development of both new storage techniques as well as new materials. One of the most promising approaches for achieving high density data storage is based on volume holography which allows data to be stored in 3 dimensions. This significant increase in capacity is in direct contrast ...