Yanbo Zhou

Cloud vendors offer diverse infrastructure services by flexibly allocating resources, such as compute, storage, and networking, across virtual machines. However, memory allocation is still less flexible: the vendors allocate memory capacity in a fixed ratio to virtual CPUs and provide no mechanis...

Cloud local storage has been a popular service among many vendors thanks to its near-physical performance and affordable price. In this paper, we revisit the evolution of the cloud local storage at Alibaba Cloud. We systematically analyze and evaluate the motivations, architectures and pros/cons...