In recent years, cloud storage systems have emerged as a promising technology for storing
data blocks on various cloud servers. One of the main mechanisms in cloud storage systems …

Nowadays, in various scientific domains, large data sets are becoming an important part of
shared resources. Such huge mass of data is usually stored in cloud data centers …

Cloud computing has various challenges, one of them is using copied data. Data replication
is an important technique for distributed mass data management. The aim of the general …

Heterogeneous distributed computing environments are emerging for developing data-
intensive (big data) applications that require to access huge data files. Therefore, effective …

Cloud computing is becoming a very popular word in industry and is receiving a large
amount of attention from the research community. Replica management is one of the most …

Failures are normal rather than exceptional in the cloud computing environments. To
improve system availability, replicating the popular data to multiple suitable locations is an …

Unlike traditional high performance computing environment, such as cluster and
supercomputers, the cloud computing is a collection of interconnected and virtualized …

Cloud computing environment is getting more interesting as a new trend of data
management. Data replication has been widely applied to improve data access in …

With the increasing popularity and rapid development of the cloud storage technology, more
and more users are beginning to upload their data to the cloud storage platform. However …

This paper presents a survey of data replication strategies in cloud systems. Based on the
survey and reviews of existing classifications, we propose another classification of …