Managing complexity and predictability in embedded systems: Applying component-based development

Summary form only given. Due to the booming growth of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), a vast amount of data is produced at a considerably high rate and it drives the traditional methods of storing data to its limits and most of the time it simply overwhelms the current storage systems. Because of that, throughout the history of the development of ICT, the effort to find an efficient and feasible data storage system that has a substantial capacity to cater the current data storage needs has been relentless.