On construction of a cloud storage system with heterogeneous software-defined storage technologies

Abstract

In the last decade, cloud computing has attracted more and more attentions in both industry and academia [1-8]. It deeply changed people's lives due to its inherent advantages, such as on-demand self-service, resource pooling and rapid resource elasticity, etc.. With the services provided by cloud computing, users can upload their requirements via the Internet to a cloud environment and receive responses following postprocessing in the cloud environment. Among these services, cloud storage service is one of the important and indispensable services [9-12]. Cloud storage makes data storage a service in which data is outsourced to a cloud server maintained by a cloud provider. With the service, data could be stored remotely into the cloud efficiently and safely. Thus, this service attracts many people, especially enterprises, due to that it brings appealing benefits, e.g., avoidance of capital expenditure on hardware and software, relief of the burden for storage management, etc. [13-15].

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