Leping Yang

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...

With the emergence of high-performance storage devices, the overhead of the storage stack has become a major I/O performance bottleneck. To alleviate this problem, a number of express I/O paths have been proposed based on the concept of near-data processing (NDP), such as query I/O resubmission (...