INTELLIGENT STORAGE DEVICES FOR SCALABLE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT-SYSTEMS

For most large commercial organisations the ability to store and manip ulate massive volumes of data is a key operational requirement. Databa se systems are fundamental to the efficient provision of a range of bu siness tasks from on-line transaction processing, decision support and enterprise information systems. High performance multiprocessor datab ase servers open up new possibilities for the realisation of these com mercial requirements. If these opportunities are to be realised intell igent storage devices will be required to provide a uniform interface regardless of implementation and which also directly supports the basi c need of scalability. In this paper we explore some of the issues for such a device.