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). The team has 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 strategy areas of research include:
- Advanced Storage Controllers
- Archive Systems
- Autonomic Storage Management
- Scale Out File Systems
- Solid State Information Systems
- Storage for Clouds
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
| Richard Freitas, Joseph Slember, Wayne Sawdon, and Lawrence Chiu. GPFS Scans 10 Billion Files in 43 Minutes. 2011. |
| Sandip Agarwala, Luis Angel D. Bathen, Divyesh Jadav, Ramani Routray. Configuration Discovery and Monitoring Middleware for Enterprise Datacenter, NOMS'10 - IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium, 2010. |
| Sandip Agarwala, Ramani Routray. Cluster Aware Storage Resource Provisioning in a Data Center, NOMS'10 - IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium, 2010. |
| Tapan Nayak, Ramani Routray, Aameek Singh, Sandeep Uttamchandani, Akshat Verma. End-to-end Disaster Recovery Planning: From Art to Science, NOMS'10 - IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium, 2010. |
| Ramani Routray, Shripad Nadgowda. VLS: Simulated System Management Test Infrastructure as a Service, NOMS'10 - IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium, 2010. |
| Marc Eshel, Roger Haskin, Dean Hildebrand, Manoj Naik, Frank Schmuck, and Renu Tewari. Panache: A Parallel File System Cache for Global File Access., FAST'10 - 8th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, Feb 2010. |
Bruce Hillsberg
