Mark Walter Storer recently completed his Ph.D. studying security and cost efficiency in archival storage. His advisor is Professor Ethan L. Miller. To study long-term security, he helped create POTSHARDS. To explore cost efficiency, he helped create Pergamum. He is currently working on ways to automate archival storage management.

The path Mark has taken to computer science has been circuitous. He received his B.A. in Film Theory in 1997. After returning to school in 2004, he received his M.S. in computer science in 2006. He completed his advancement to candidacy in December of 2007, and defended his Ph.D. thesis in February of 2009.

Publications

2009

• Mark W. Storer, Kevin Greenan, Ethan L. Miller, Kaladhar Voruganti, POTSHARDS—A Secure, Long-Term Storage System, ACM Transactions on Storage 5(2), June 2009. [Archival Storage] [Secure File and Storage Systems]
• Ian Adams, Darrell D. E. Long, Ethan L. Miller, Shankar Pasupathy, Mark W. Storer, Maximizing Efficiency By Trading Storage for Computation, Proceedings of the Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud ’09), June 2009. [Archival Storage] [Petabyte-Scale Storage]
• Mark W. Storer, Secure, Energy-Efficient, Evolvable, Long-Term Archival Storage, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-09-01, March 2009. [Archival Storage]

2008

• Mark W. Storer, Kevin Greenan, Ian Adams, Ethan L. Miller, Darrell D. E. Long, Kaladhar Voruganti, Logan: Automatic Management for Evolvable, Large-Scale, Archival Storage, Proceedings of the 2008 Petascale Data Storage Workshop (PDSW 08), November 2008. [Archival Storage]
• Mark W. Storer, Kevin Greenan, Darrell D. E. Long, Ethan L. Miller, Secure Data Deduplication, Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS 2008), held in conjunction with the 15th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2008), October 2008. [Archival Storage] [Deduplication] [Secure File and Storage Systems]
• Mark W. Storer, Kevin Greenan, Ethan L. Miller, Kaladhar Voruganti, Pergamum: Energy-efficient Archival Storage with Disk Instead of Tape, ;login: — The USENIX Magazine 33(3), June 2008. [Archival Storage]
• Mark W. Storer, Kevin Greenan, Ethan L. Miller, Kaladhar Voruganti, Pergamum: Replacing Tape with Energy Efficient, Reliable, Disk-Based Archival Storage, Proceedings of the 6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '08), February 2008, pages 1-16. [Archival Storage] [Reliable Storage]

2007

• Mark W. Storer, Kevin Greenan, Ethan L. Miller, Kaladhar Voruganti, POTSHARDS: Secure Long-Term Storage Without Encryption, Proceedings of the 2007 USENIX Technical Conference, June 2007, pages 143-156. [Archival Storage] [Secure File and Storage Systems]
• Carlos Maltzahn, Nikhil Bobb, Mark W. Storer, Damian Eads, Scott A. Brandt, Ethan L. Miller, Graffiti: A Framework for Testing Collaborative Distributed Metadata, Proceedings in Informatics 21, March 2007, pages 97–111. [Scalable Metadata Management] [Storage Class Memories]
• Mark W. Storer, Graffiti Server - Design and Implementation, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-07-02, January 2007. [Scalable Metadata Management] [Storage Class Memories]

2006

• Mark W. Storer, Kevin Greenan, Ethan L. Miller, Long-Term Threats to Secure Archives, Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS 2006), October 2006. [Archival Storage] [Reliable Storage] [Secure File and Storage Systems]
• Mark W. Storer, Kevin Greenan, Ethan L. Miller, Kaladhar Voruganti, POTSHARDS: Secure Long-Term Archival Storage Without Encryption, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-06-03, Storage Systems Research Center, University of California, Santa Cruz, September 2006. Later version published in USENIX 2007. [Archival Storage] [Reliable Storage] [Secure File and Storage Systems]
• Sasha Ames, Nikhil Bobb, Kevin Greenan, Owen Hofmann, Mark W. Storer, Carlos Maltzahn, Ethan L. Miller, Scott A. Brandt, LiFS: An attribute-rich file system for storage class memories, Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE / 14th NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, May 2006. [Storage Class Memories]
• Nikhil Bobb, Damian Eads, Mark W. Storer, Scott A. Brandt, Carlos Maltzahn, Ethan L. Miller, Graffiti: A framework for testing collaborative distributed metadata, Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Distributed Data and Structures (WDAS 2006), January 2006. [Storage Class Memories]

2005

• Mark W. Storer, Kevin Greenan, Ethan L. Miller, Carlos Maltzahn, POTSHARDS: Storing Data for the Long-Term Without Encryption, Proceedings of the 3rd International IEEE Security in Storage Workshop, December 2005. [Archival Storage] [Secure File and Storage Systems]