The prime objective of the cloud data storage process is to make the service, irrespective of being infinitely extensible, a more reliable storage and low-cost model that also encourages different data storage types. Owing to the storage process, it must satisfy the cloud users’ prerequisites. Nevertheless, storing massive amounts of data becomes critical as this affectsthe data quality or integrity. Hence, this poses various challenges for existing methodologies. An efficient, reliable cloud storage model is proposed using a hybrid heuristic approach to overcome the challenges. The prime intention of the proposed system is to store the data effectively in the cloud environment by resolving two constraints, which are general and specific (structural). The cloud data were initially gathered and used to analyze the storage performance. Since the data were extensive, different datasets and storage devices were considered. Every piece of data was specified by its corresponding features, whereas the devices were characterized by the hardware or software components. Subsequently, the objective function was formulated using the network’s structural and general constraints. The structural constraints were determined by the interactions between the devices and data instances in the cloud. Then, the general constraints regarding the data allocation rules and device capacity were defined. To mitigate the constraints, the components were optimized using the Hybrid Pelican–Billiards Optimization Algorithm (HP-BOA) to store the cloud data. Finally, the performance was validated, and the results were analyzed and compared against existing approaches. Thus, the proposed model exhibited the desired results for storing cloud data appropriately.
