Towards a middleware for configuring large-scale storage infrastructures
David M. Eyers, Ramani R. Routray, Rui Zhang, Douglas Willcocks, Peter R. Pietzuch · 2009
The rapid proliferation of cloud and service-oriented computing infrastructure is creating an ever increasing thirst for storage within data centers. Ideally management applications in cloud deployments should operate in terms of high-level goals, and not present specific implementation details to administrators. Cloud providers often employ Storage Area Networks (SANs) to gain storage scalability. SAN configurations have a vast parameter space, which makes them one of the most difficult components to configure and manage in a cloud storage offering.