Exploiting the cloud storage hierarchy both within and across data-centers of different cloud
providers empowers Internet applications to choose data centers (DCs) and storage …

Multi-tiered geo-distributed cloud storage systems must tame complexity at many levels:
uniform APIs for storage access, supporting flexible storage policies that meet a wide array …

Many Cloud applications exploit the diversity of storage options in a data center to achieve
desired cost, performance, and durability tradeoffs. It is common to see applications using a …

Cloud storage systems frequently have a large user base that requires huge cloud
resources. Sometimes, cloud devices become overloaded because of an imbalance in …

The benefits of cloud storage come along with challenges and open issues about availability
of services, vendor lock-in and data security, etc. One solution to mitigate the problems is the …

Geo-distributed cloud storage systems must tame complexity at many levels: uniform APIs
for storage access, supporting flexible storage policies that meet a wide array of application …

Geo-replication is the process of maintaining copies of data at geographically dispersed
datacenters for better availability and fault-tolerance. The distinguishing characteristic of geo …

Multi-cloud storage can provide better features such as availability and scalability. Current
works use multiple cloud storage providers with erasure coding to achieve certain benefits …

With the increasing demand of big data applications, a variety of problems on how to
operate the supporting infrastructures more intelligently and efficiently have attracted much …

The new generation multi-tiered cloud storage services offer various tiers, such as hot and
cool tiers, which are characterized by differentiated Quality of Service (QoS)(ie, access …