A Software-Defined Storage for Workflow Applications
Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu · 2016
We present a software-defined storage architecture with two key properties: firstly, it enables external control of storage operations, and, secondly, it allows extending the storage system with new, workload specific, optimizations, all without breaking the file system abstractions. We argue that this architecture is generic, we prototype FlexStore following this architecture, we instantiate it to support workflow applications, and we report on our preliminary experience.