Abstract: A service control system manages a set of storage clients operating within one or more computing hosts. Storage clients may access a consistent storage system regardless which cloud provider the computing hosts come from. To provide storage, each logical volume accessed by a container is associated with a microcontroller at the computing host. The microcontroller is managed by the service control system and stores data for the logical volume at two or more replicas on different computing hosts.

Abstract: A service control system manages a set of storage clients operating within one or more computing hosts. Storage clients may access a consistent storage system regardless which cloud provider the computing hosts come from. To provide storage, each logical volume accessed by a container is associated with a microcontroller at the computing host. The microcontroller is managed by the service control system and stores data for the logical volume at two or more replicas on different computing hosts.

Abstract: Virtual storage arrays consolidate data storage from branch locations at data centers. The virtual storage array appears to storage clients as a local data storage; however, the virtual storage array data is actually stored at a data center. To overcome the bandwidth and latency limitations of wide area networks between branch locations and the data center, systems and methods predict, prefetch, and cache at the branch location storage blocks that are likely to be requested in the future by storage clients. When this prediction is successful, storage block requests are fulfilled from branch locations' storage block caches. Predictions may leverage an understanding of the semantics and structure of the high-level data structures associated with the storage blocks. Prefetching agents on storage clients monitor storage requests to determine the associations between requested storage blocks and the corresponding high-level data structures as well as other attributes useful for prediction.

Abstract: A local network traffic processor and an application are resident on a common computer system. The application is configured to trust a server certificate issued by a local network traffic processor, the local network traffic processor operatively being paired with a remote network traffic processor. A proxy server certificate, generated using identification information of a server associated with the remote network traffic processor and signed by the local certification authority, is used to establish a secure session between a local network traffic processor and the application.

Abstract: A local network traffic processor and an application are resident on a common computer system. The application is configured to trust a server certificate issued by a local network traffic processor, the local network traffic processor operatively being paired with a remote network traffic processor. A proxy server certificate, generated using identification information of a server associated with the remote network traffic processor and signed by the local certification authority, is used to establish a secure session between a local network traffic processor and the application.