@conference {300501,
	title = {Blizzard: Fast, Cloud-scale Block Storage for Cloud-oblivious Applications},
	booktitle = {NSDI},
	year = {2014},
	address = {Seattle, WA},
	abstract = {Blizzard is a high-performance block store that exposes\&nbsp;cloud storage to cloud-oblivious POSIX and\&nbsp;Win32 applications. Blizzard connects clients and\&nbsp;servers using a network with full-bisection bandwidth,\&nbsp;allowing clients to access any remote disk as fast as if\&nbsp;it were local. Using a novel striping scheme, Blizzard\&nbsp;exposes high disk parallelism to both sequential and random\&nbsp;workloads; also, by decoupling the durability and\&nbsp;ordering requirements expressed by flush requests, Blizzard\&nbsp;can commit writes out-of-order, providing high performance\&nbsp;and crash consistency to applications that issue\&nbsp;many small, random IOs. Blizzard{\textquoteright}s virtual disk drive,\&nbsp;which clients mount like a normal physical one, provides\&nbsp;maximum throughputs of 1200 MB/s, and can improve\&nbsp;the performance of unmodified, cloud-oblivious applications\&nbsp;by 2x{\textendash}10x. Compared to EBS, a commercially\&nbsp;available, state-of-the-art virtual drive for cloud applications,\&nbsp;Blizzard can improve SQL server IOp rates by\&nbsp;seven-fold while still providing crash consistency.},
	url = {http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mickens/files/blizzard.pdf},
	author = {James Mickens and Edmund B. Nightingale and Jeremy Elson and Krishna Nareddy and Darren Gehring and Bin Fan and Asim Kadav and Vijay Chidambaram and Osama Khan}
}
