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Access to shared data is provided today by distributed file systems and databases. In this paper, we explore certain usage and technological trends that will radically change the way shared data is used in the future. The usage trends include the growing need to access shared data from anywhere, increasing scale, and the increasing importance of efficient search. The technology trends include the advent of portable machines, the availability of software and hardware for using diverse types of data, and the growing diversity of network speeds and capabilities. These trends induce fundamental research problems in the areas of adaptive system behavior, secure remote execution and extensibility.
This work has been supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Avionics Lab, Wright Research and Development Center, Aeronautical Systems Division (AFSC), U.S. Air Force, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, 45433-6543 under Contract F33615-90-C-1465, ARPA Order No. 7597), the National Science Foundation (CCR-8657907), and the IBM Corporation (Research Initiation Grant). The views and conclusion expressed in this paper are those of the author, and should not be interpreted as those of the funding agencies or Carnegie Mellon University.
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Satyanarayanan, M. (1991). An agenda for research in large-scale distributed data repositories. In: Karshmer, A., Nehmer, J. (eds) Operating Systems of the 90s and Beyond. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 563. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0024514
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