Managing data stored in a cache using a reinforcement learning agent may include: determining a set of current state observations with respect to a cache, wherein the set of current state observations is determined based on historical cache accesses to the cache; inputting the set of current state observations into an actor network of a reinforcement learning (RL) agent to obtain an action output by the actor network, wherein the RL agent is configured to manage data stored at the cache; inputting the set of current state observations and the action into a critic network of the RL agent to obtain a score corresponding to the action from the critic network; causing the RL agent to perform the action with respect to managing the data stored at the cache; using the score to update the actor network; and using a reward corresponding to the action to update the critic network.

A method in one embodiment comprises separating logical block addresses of one or more storage devices of a storage system into a plurality of ranges of logical block addresses using a designated chunk size, the chunk size denoting a particular number of logical block addresses. The method further comprises assigning different ones of the ranges of logical block addresses to different ones of a plurality of cache entities of the storage system, to select paths for delivery of respective input-output operations from a host device to the storage system based at least in part on the assigning, detecting particular ones of the input-output operations that each overlap with two or more adjacent ranges of the plurality of ranges, and responsive to the detected input-output operations exceeding a threshold, modifying the chunk size and repeating at least portions of the separating, assigning, selecting and detecting utilizing the modified chunk size.

A system and method comprising: receiving a request to write data stored at a first range of a first volume to a second range of a second volume, where first metadata for the first range of the first volume is associated with a range of physical addresses where the data is stored in the storage system; and responsive to receiving the request: creating second metadata for the second range of the second volume, wherein the second metadata is associated with the range of physical addresses where the data is stored in the storage system; and associating the second volume with the second metadata.

A server in a cloud-based environment interfaces with storage devices that store shared content accessible by two or more users. Individual items within the shared content are associated with respective object metadata that is also stored in the cloud-based environment. Download requests initiate downloads of instances of a virtual file system module to two or more user devices associated with two or more users. The downloaded virtual file system modules capture local metadata that pertains to local object operations directed by the users over the shared content. Changed object metadata attributes are delivered to the server and to other user devices that are accessing the shared content. Peer-to-peer connections can be established between the two or more user devices. Object can be divided into smaller portions such that processing the individual smaller portions of a larger object reduces the likelihood of a conflict between user operations over the shared content.

Described are methods, systems and computer readable media for providing a current row position query language construct and array processing query language constructs and associated processing.

A storage server and a method of driving the storage server are provided. The storage server includes a processor configured to: generate a plurality of flush write commands based on a write command of first data provided from a host, provide a replication command corresponding to the write command to an external storage server, and receive an operation completion signal of the replication command from the external storage server; a memory storing a program of a log file to which the plurality of flush write commands are logged; and a storage device configured to receive a multi-offset write command including one or more flush write commands logged to the log file, and perform a flush operation on the multi-offset write command. The processor is further configured to provide the multi-offset write command to the storage device based on the log file after receiving the operation completion signal.

Memory pages are background-relocated from a low-latency local operating memory of a server computer to a higher-latency memory installation that enables high-resolution access monitoring and thus access-demand differentiation among the relocated memory pages. Higher access-demand memory pages are background-restored to the low-latency operating memory, while lower access-demand pages are maintained in the higher latency memory installation and yet-lower access-demand pages are optionally moved to yet higher-latency memory installation.

Techniques relating to caching a content object are disclosed. These techniques include receiving, at a first server from a requestor, a revalidation request relating to a content object. The techniques further include determining that metadata describing one or more characteristics of the content object is stored in a cache associated with the first server and that the content object is not stored in the cache, and in response: determining, at the first server, whether to retrieve content object data from any server based on analyzing a metric relating to retrieving the content object, and transmitting from the first server to the requestor, based on analyzing the metadata, a response to the revalidation request indicating that the content object is not modified.

A packet processing device, a method to be performed at the packet processing device, a computer-readable storage medium, and a computing system. The packet processing device is to determine a computing unit of the server architecture, the computing unit to execute a workload; receive a data packet including data to be used by the computing unit to execute the workload; determine, based on the computing unit to execute the workload, a memory of the server architecture to store the data for access by the computing unit to execute the workload; and route the data to the server architecture for storage at the memory.

There is disclosed an example of a computing apparatus for providing a hardware-assisted virtual switch on a host, including: a hardware virtual switch (vSwitch) circuit; and a hardware virtual host (vHost) circuit, the vHost circuit having an interface driver specific to the hardware vSwitch and configured to provide a vHost data plane to: provide a plurality of hardware queues to communicatively couple the hardware vSwitch to a guest virtual function (VF); and present to a virtual network driver of the guest VF an interface that is backward compatible with a software network interface.