IT enterprises have recently witnessed a dramatic increase in data volume and faced with
challenges of storing and retrieving their data. Thanks to the fact that cloud infrastructures …

With the development and maturity of cloud storage, it has attracted a large number of users.
Although cloud users do not need to concern themselves with the infrastructure used for …

Cloud Storage Providers (CSPs) offer geographically data stores providing several storage
classes with different prices. An important problem facing by cloud users is how to exploit …

Cloud service providers offer application providers with virtually infinite storage and
computing resources, while providing cost-efficiency and various other quality of service …

Abstract Cloud Storage Providers (CSPs) offer geographically dispersed data stores
providing several storage classes with different prices. A vital problem faced by application …

Several virtual machine (VM) placement algorithms have been proposed and studied in the
literature with various scopes such as server consolidation or network cost minimization. In …

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 …

The cost of using cloud storage services is complex and often an unclear structure, while it is
one of the important factors for organisations adopting cloud storage. Furthermore …

In cloud storage, the digital data is stored in logical storage pools, backed by heterogeneous
physical storage media and computing infrastructure that are managed by a cloud service …

Cost-effective cloud storage services are attracting users with their convenience, but there is
a trade-off between service availability and usage cost. We develop two cloud provider …