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Research Staff Member, Manager
IBM Research - Almaden, San Jose, CA
  

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Professional Associations

Professional Associations:  ACM  |  ACM SIGMETRICS  |  ACM SIGOPS  |  IEEE   |  IEEE STCOS  |  Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA)  |  USENIX: The Advanced Computing Systems Association


2021

CNSBench: A Cloud Native Storage Benchmark
Alex Merenstein, Vasily Tarasov, Ali Anwar, Deepavali Bhagwat, Julie Lee, Lukas Rupprecht, Dimitris Skourtis, Yang Yang, Erez Zadok
FAST, 2021


2020

Large-Scale Analysis of the Docker Images and Performance Implications to Container Storage Systems
Nannan Zhao, Vasily Tarasov, Hadeel Albahar, Ali Anwar, Lukas Rupprecht, Dimitrios Skourtis, Arnab K. Paul, Keren Chen, Ali R. Butt
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2020

The Case for Benchmarking Control Operations in Cloud Native Storage
Alex Merenstein, Vasily Tarasov, Ali Anwar, Deepavali Bhagwat, Lukas Rupprecht, Dimitris Skourtis, Erez Zadok
HotStorage, 2020

DupHunter: Flexible High-Performance Deduplication for Docker Registries
Nannan Zhao, Hadeel Albahar, Subil Abraham, Keren Chen, Vasily Tarasov, Dimitrios Skourtis, Lukas Rupprecht, Ali Anwar, Ali R. Butt
ATC, 2020

InfiniCache: Exploiting Ephemeral Serverless Functions to Build a Cost-Effective Memory Cache
Ao Wang, Jingyuan Zhang, Xiaolong Ma, Ali Anwar, Lukas Rupprecht, Dimitrios Skourtis, Vasily Tarasov, Feng Yan, Yue Cheng
FAST, 2020


2019

Challenges in Storing Docker Images
Ali Anwar, Lukas Rupprecht, Dimitris Skourtis, Vasily Tarasov
;login: 44(3), 2019

Large-Scale Analysis of the Docker Hub Dataset
Nannan Zhao, Vasily Tarasov, Hadeel Albahar, Ali Anwar, Lukas Rupprecht, Dimitrios Skourtis, Amit S. Warke, Mohamed Mohamed, and Ali R. Butt
IEEE Cluster, 2019

Agni: An Efficient Dual-access File System over Object Storage
Kunal Lillaney, Vasily Tarasov, David Pease, Randal Burns
ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC) , 2019

Data Storage Research Vision 2025: Report on NSF Visioning Workshop held May 30 - June 1, 2018
George Amvrosiadis, Ali R. Butt, Vasily Tarasov, Erez Zadok, Ming Zhao, et al.
2019

Bolt: Towards a Scalable Docker Registry
Michael Littley, Ali Anwar, Hannan Fayyaz, Zeshan Fayyaz, Vasily Tarasov, Lukas Rupprecht, Dimitrios Skourtis, Mohamed Mohamed, Heiko Ludwig, Yue Cheng, Ali R. Butt
IEEE Cloud, 2019

Carving Perfect Layers out of Docker Images
Dimitris Skourtis, Lukas Rupprecht, Vasily Tarasov, Nimrod Megiddo
HotCloud, 2019

The Case for Dual-access File Systems over Object Storage
Kunal Lillaney, Vasily Tarasov, David Pease, Randal Burns
HotStorage, 2019

Evaluating Docker Storage Performance: from Workloads to Graph Drivers
Vasily Tarasov, Lukas Rupprecht, Dimitris Skourtis, Wenji Li, Raju Rangaswami, Ming Zhao
Cluster Computing 22(4), 2019


2018

Wharf: Sharing Docker Images in a Distributed File System
Chao Zheng, Lukas Rupprecht, Vasily Tarasov, Douglas Thain, Mohamed Mohamed, Dimitrios Skourtis, Amit Warke, Dean Hildebrand
Symposium of Cloud Computing (SoCC), 2018

Towards Better Understanding of Black-box Auto-Tuning: A Comparative Analysis for Storage Systems
Zhen Cao, Vasily Tarasov, Sachin Tiwari, Erez Zadok
ATC, 2018

Improving Docker Registry Design based on Production Workload Analysis
Ali Anwar, Mohamed Mohamed, Vasily Tarasov, Michael Littley, Lukas Rupprecht, Yue Cheng, Nannan Zhao, Dimitrios Skourtis, Amit S. Warke, Heiko Ludwig, Dean Hildebrand, Ali R. Butt
FAST, 2018

Challenges and Solutions for Tracing Storage Systems: A Case Study with Spectrum Scale
Marc-Andre Vef, Vasily Tarasov, Dean Hildebrand, Andre Brinkmann
ACM Transactions on Storage 14(2), 2018

Cluster and Single-Node Analysis of Long-Term Deduplication Patterns
Zhen Jason Sun, Geoff Kuenning, Sonam Mandal, Philip Shilane, Vasily Tarasov, Nong Xiao, Erez Zadok
ACM Transactions on Storage 14(2), 2018


2017

Wharf: Sharing Docker Images across Hosts from a Distributed Filesystem (POSTER)
Chao Zheng, Lukas Rupprecht, Vasily Tarasov, Mohamed Mohamed, Dimitrios Skourtis, Amit S. Warke, Dean Hildebrand, Douglas Thain
Supercomputing, 2017

In Search of the Ideal Storage Configuration for Docker Containers
Vasily Tarasov, Lukas Rupprecht, Dimitrios Skourtis, Amit Warke, Dean Hildebrand, Mohamed Mohamed, Nagapramod Mandagere, Wenji Li, Ming Zhao, Raju Rangaswami
Workshop on Autonomic Management of Large Scale Container-based Systems, 2017
Co-allocated with IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (ICCAC)

To FUSE or Not to FUSE: Performance of User-Space File Systems
Bharath Vangoor, Vasily Tarasov, Erez Zadok
FAST, 2017

On the Performance Variation in Modern Storage Stacks
Zhen Cao, Vasily Tarasov, Dean Hildebrand, Erez Zadok
FAST, 2017


2016

The Dos and Don'ts of File System Benchmarking
Vasily Tarasov, Zhen Cao, Ming Chen, Erez Zadok
FreeBSD Journal January/February, 2016

Filebench: A Flexible Framework for File System Benchmarking
Vasily Tarasov, Erez Zadok, Spencer Shepler
;login: 41(1), 2016

A Long Term User-Centric Analysis of Deduplication Patterns
Zhen Sun, Geoff Kuenning, Sonam Mandal, Philip Shilane, Vasily Tarasov, Nong Xiao and Erez Zadok
MSST, 2016

Using Hints to Improve Inline Block-layer Deduplication
Sonam Mandal, Geoff Kuenning, Dongju Ok, Varun Shastry, Philip Shilane, Sun Zhen, Vasily Tarasov, Erez Zadok
FAST, 2016

Tracing of Complex Production Systems: Obstacles and Solutions
Marc-Andre Vef, Vasily Tarasov, Dean Hildebrand, Andre Brinkmann
System Analytics and Characterization, 2016


2015

A Fast and Slippery Slope for File Systems
Ricardo Santana, Raju Rangaswami, Vasily Tarasov, Dean Hildebrand
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review 49(2), 2015

A Fast and Slippery Slope for File Systems
Ricardo Santana, Raju Rangaswami, Vasily Tarasov, Dean Hildebrand
INFLOW, 2015

Terra Incognita: On the Practicality of User-Space File Systems
Vasily Tarasov, Abhishek Gupta, Kumar Sourav, Sagar Trehan, Erez Zadok
HotStorage, 2015


2014

Dmdedup: Device Mapper Target for Data Deduplication
Vasily Tarasov, Deepak Jain, Geoff Kuenning, Sonam Mandal, Karthikeyani Palanisami, Philip Shilane, Sagar Trehan, Erez Zadok
Linux Symposium, 2014


2013

Virtual Machine Workloads: The Case for New Benchmarks for NAS
Vasily Tarasov, Dean Hildebrand, Geoff Kuenning, Erez Zadok
FAST, 2013

Improving I/O Performance using Virtual Disk Introspection
Vasily Tarasov, Deepak Jain, Dean Hildebrand, Renu Tewari, Geoff Kuenning, Erez Zadok
HotStorage, 2013


2012

Extracting Flexible, Replayable Models from Large Block Traces
Vasily Tarasov, Santhosh Kumar, Jack Ma, Dean Hildebrand, Anna Povzner, Geoff Kuenning, Erez Zadok
FAST, 2012

Generating Realistic Datasets for Deduplication Analysis
Vasily Tarasov, Amar Mudrankit, Will Buik, Philip Shilane, Geoff Kuenning, Erez Zadok
ATC, 2012

Efficient I/O Scheduling with Accurately Estimated Disk Drive Latencies
Vasily Tarasov, Gyumin Sim, Anna Povzner, Erez Zadok
OSPERT, 2012


2011

Static Discovery and Remediation of Code-Embedded Resource Dependencies
Nikolay Joukov, Vasily Tarasov, Joel Ossher, Birgit Pfitzmann, Sergej Chicherin, Marco Pistoia, Takaaki Tateishi
IM, 2011

Benchmarking File System Benchmarking: It *IS* Rocket Science
Vasily Tarasov, Saumitra Bhanage, Erez Zadok, Margo Seltzer
HotOS, 2011

Revisiting the Storage Stack in Virtualized NAS Environments
Dean Hildebrand, Anna Povzner, Renu Tewari, Vasily Tarasov
WIOV, 2011


2010

The Case for Specialized File Systems, or, Fighting File System Obesity
Erez Zadok, Vasily Tarasov, Priya Sehgal
login; The USENIX Magazine, 2010

Evaluating Performance and Energy in File System Server Workloads
Priya Sehgal, Vasily Tarasov, Erez Zadok
FAST, 2010

Optimizing Energy and Performance for Server-class File System Workloads
Priya Sehgal, Vasily Tarasov, Erez Zadok
ACM Transactions on Storage, 2010


2009

Energy and Performance Evaluation of Lossless File Data Compression on Server Systems
Rachita Kothiyal, Vasily Tarasov, Priya Sehgal, Erez Zadok
SYSTOR, 2009