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Device transparency: a new model for mobile storage

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Jacob Strauss,

Chris Lesniewski-Laas,

Justin Mazzola Paluska,

Bryan Ford,

Robert Morris,

Frans KaashoekAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, Volume 44, Issue 1

Pages 5 - 9

https://doi.org/10.1145/1740390.1740393

Published: 12 March 2010 Publication History

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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.

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ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review Volume 44, Issue 1

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