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Storage Systems

IBM Almaden Research Center


Overview

The IBM Research Storage Systems group is well-known for its pioneering research in the areas of RAID, parallel file systems and enterprise backup and restore. We have also contributed to major storage industry products, such as IBM® RAMAC®, IBM 9337 RAID subsystem, Tivoli® Storage Manager (previously known as ADSTAR Distributed Storage Manager), General Parallel File System (GPFS) and IBM® TotalStorage® Enterprise Storage Server (ESS). We have made significant contributions to industry standards and specifications such as iSCSI and iSER. Most recently, technology developed by Storage Systems research is being used in the IBM System Storage Virtualization Family of products, which includes IBM SAN Volume Controller and IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center.

Our major areas of research include the following:

Our research covers all aspects of storage systems and storage solutions, and we are exploring technologies that can transform storage systems and support new classes of applications. Our goal is to design innovative storage systems and file systems, simplify and dramatically reduce the cost of storage management, and create new solutions that address the requirements of emerging data-intensive applications.

We collaborate with university partners and where appropriate, we strive for the rapid transfer of our technologies to IBM products by working closely with our product partners.

More information on storage systems research across IBM can be found at IBM Research - Storage Systems.


Recent Publications

  • Shivnath Babu, Nedyalko Borisov, Sandeep Uttamchandani, Ramani Routray, Aameek Singh. DiaDS: Addressing the "My-Problem-or-Yours" Syndrome with Integrated SAN and Database Diagnosis, FAST'09 - 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, Feb 2009.
    • Sangeetha Seshadri, Lawrence Chiu, Ling Liu. A Systematic Approach to System State Restoration During Storage Controller Micro-Recovery, FAST'09 - 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, Feb 2009.
      • Madhukar Korupolu, Aameek Singh, Bhuvan Bamba. Coupled Placement in Modern Data Centers, IPDPS'09 - IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, May 2009.
        • Michael Cardosa, Madhukar Korupolu, Aameek Singh. Shares and Utilities based Power Consolidation in Virtualized Server Environments, IM'09 - IEEE/IFIP International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, June 2009.
          • Hai Huang, Yaoping Ruan, Anees Shaikh, Ramani Routray, Chung-hao Tan, Sandeep Gopisetty. Building End-to-End Management Analytics for Enterprise Data Centers., IM'09 - IEEE/IFIP International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, June 2009.

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            Bruce Hillsberg, Director, Storage Systems
            Bruce Hillsberg
            Director, Storage Systems

            Contact Info



            Interested in working here?

            Please send your cv to Mr. KK Rao identifying the storage system research area you are interested.


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