Cloud Storage & Data Security

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Mojgan Afshari.

Cloud computing has emerged as an innovative approach to provide computing services. It offers numerous advantages such as fast deployment, lower costs, pay for use, rapid elasticity, scalability, ubiquitous network access, and greater resiliency. One of the primary uses of cloud computing is for data storage. Cloud storage is a model of networked online storage and can store data on multiple third-party servers.

Cloud storage is an evolution of traditional hosted storage technology (FTP, WebDAV, NFS/CIFS) that involves more sophisticated APIs, namespaces, file or data location virtualization, and management tools. Wu et al. (2010) identified several benefits of using cloud storage such as ease of management, cost effectiveness, lower impact outages and upgrades, and simplified planning. So, cloud storage is convenient and offers more flexibility. According to Borgmann et al. (2012), most cloud storage providers offer two types of services:..

Basic cloud storage services: they are services mainly offer virtual online disk space that can be used as a normal hard drive for storing all types of data. Users cannot access these services directly. In fact, they are embedded into custom software using application programming interfaces (API). Examples of such basic cloud storage services are Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage…

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