Device transparency
Jacob Strauss, Chris Lesniewski-Laas, Justin Mazzola Paluska, Bryan Ford, Robert Morris, Frans Kaashoek · ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review · 2010
This paper proposes a new storage model, device transparency , in which users view and manage their entire data collection from any of their devices, even from disconnected storage-limited devices holding only a subset of the entire collection.