The advent of the cloud era has yielded new ways of storing, accessing and managing data.
Cloud storage services enable the storage of data in an inexpensive, secure, fast, reliable …

With the development of network infrastructure, a large volume of data will be exchanged
with increased bandwidth. Many applications are connecting people to the rest of the world …

In public vs. private solutions (ie Cloud vs. In-house, or leased vs. Owned) for storage, both
alternatives have their pros and cons. Cloud storage can easily adapt to the company …

Enterprise IT departments must decide whether to build a private cloud themselves or lease
space in a cloud instead. Actually, most enterprise cloud systems are heterogeneous …

Cloud Computing presents an efficient, on-demand and scalable way to integrate
computational resources. However, existing Cloud paradigm is increasingly transforming the …

Hybrid cloud storage combines cost-effective but inflexible private storage along with flexible
but premium-priced public cloud storage. As a form of concurrent sourcing, it offers flexibility …

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 …

Cloud computing is the current technology paradigm that portends the greatest potentials to
revolutionize the way IT activities are conducted. Cloud computing influences most known …

The goal to continually reduce operating costs while meeting computational needs is
common to all modern organizations that use cloud computing. We study the problem of …