Software-Defined Storage (SDS) Architectures

Established: August 14, 2013

In data centers, the IO path to storage is long and complex. It comprises many layers or “stages” with opaque interfaces between them. This makes it hard to enforce end-to-end policies that dictate a storage IO flow’s performance (e.g., guarantee a tenant’s IO bandwidth) and routing (e.g., route an untrusted VM’s traffic through a sanitization middlebox). We are researching architectures that decouple control from data flow to enable such policies.

People

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Ant Rowstron

Distinguished Engineer / Deputy Lab Director

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Greg O'Shea

Principal RSDE

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Hitesh Ballani

Partner Researcher

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Richard Black

Project Silica Research Director

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Thomas Karagiannis

Principal Researcher

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Ioan Stefanovici

Principal Research Manager