Online data storage doubles almost every nine months in this country due to an ever-growing demand for networked information services, so faculty member Xubin (Ben) He's award-winning research addresses the need head on with a more efficient, reliable storage system. He has been named our 2005 Sigma Xi Research Award winner for his paper "STICS, SCSI-to-IP Cache for Storage Area Networks," published in a 2004 issue of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, considered one of the best journals in its field. FULL STORY