Data Intensive Storage Services for Cloud Environments

Data Intensive Storage Services for Cloud Environments

Dimosthenis Kyriazis, Athanasios Voulodimos, Spyridon V. Gogouvitis, Theodora Varvarigou

Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 342

ISBN13: 9781466639348|ISBN10: 1466639342|EISBN13: 9781466639355

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3934-8

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With the evolution of digitized data, our society has become dependent on services to extract valuable information and enhance decision making by individuals, businesses, and government in all aspects of life. Therefore, emerging cloud-based infrastructures for storage have been widely thought of as the next generation solution for the reliance on data increases.

Data Intensive Storage Services for Cloud Environments provides an overview of the current and potential approaches towards data storage services and its relationship to cloud environments. This reference source brings together research on storage technologies in cloud environments and various disciplines useful for both professionals and researchers.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Editorial Advisory Board

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgment

Chapters

Chapter 1

Commercial and Distributed Storage Systems (pages 1-8)

Spyridon V. Gogouvitis, Athanasios Voulodimos, Dimosthenis Kyriazis

Distributed storage systems are becoming the method of data storage for the new generation of applications, as it appears a promising solution to handle the immense volume of data produced in today’s rich and ubiquitous digital...

Chapter 2

Key Distributed Components for a Large-Scale Object Storage (pages 9-26)

Miriam Allalouf, Ghislain Chevalier, Danny Harnik, Sivan Tal

This chapter discusses distributed mechanisms that serve as building blocks in the construction of the VISION Cloud object service. Two are fundamental building blocks in the creation of a large-scale clustered object storage. These...

Chapter 3

Content Centric Storage and Current Storage Systems (pages 27-46)

Michael C. Jaeger, Uwe Hohenstein

Content-centric storage represents an approach for handling large amounts of data. It is one of the innovations pursued by the VISION Cloud project. The goal of the VISION Cloud project is the development of an industry grade storage...

Chapter 4

Business Models and Billing Challenges (pages 47-59)

Javier Martínez Elicegui, Lei Xu, Emilio García Escobar

The advent of the Cloud has leveraged a number of challenges, both for customers and service providers. Companies willing to embrace the new paradigm must face some entrance barriers, such as security, privacy and trust concerns...

Chapter 5

Towards Federation and Interoperability of Cloud Storage Systems (pages 60-71)

Sebastian Dippl, Michael C. Jaeger, Achim Luhn, Alexandra Shulman-Peleg, Gil Vernik

While it is common to use storage in a cloud-based manner, the question of true interoperability is rarely fully addressed. This question becomes even more relevant since the steadily growing amount of data that needs to be stored...

Chapter 6

SLA Management in Storage Clouds (pages 72-93)

Nikoletta Mavrogeorgi, Spyridon V. Gogouvitis, Athanasios Voulodimos, Vasilios Alexandrou

The need for online storage and backup of data constantly increases. Many domains, such as media, enterprises, healthcare, and telecommunications need to store large amounts of data and access them rapidly any time and from any...

Chapter 7

Cloud Access Control Mechanisms (pages 94-108)

Ciro Formisano, Lucia Bonelli, Kanchanna Ramasamy Balraj, Alexandra Shulman-Peleg

Cloud storage systems provide highly scalable and continuously available storage services to millions of geographically distributed clients. In order for users to trust their data to these systems, they need to be confident that...

Chapter 8

Compliance in the Cloud (pages 109-131)

Lucia Bonelli, Luisa Giudicianni, Angelo Immediata, Antonio Luzzi

Despite the huge economic, handling, and computational benefits of the cloud technology, the multitenant and geographically distributed nature of clouds hides a large crowd of security and regulatory issues to be addressed. The main...

Chapter 9

Media Convergence and Cloud Technologies: Smart Storage, Better Workflows (pages 132-144)

Mirko Lorenz, Linda Rath-Wiggins, Wilfried Runde, Alberto Messina, Paola Sunna, Giorgio Dimino, Maurizio Montagnuolo, Roberto Borgotallo

Why do media organizations look out for cloud storage? In short, the media industry as a whole is facing various challenges. Due to digital convergence there is more material, less time, and multiple channels to fill, while budgets...

Chapter 10

Telecommunication Industry: Storage and Mobility (pages 145-157)

Fredrik Solsvik, Michel Dao

The operators Telefónica, Orange, and Telenor represent the telecommunication industry in the VISION Cloud project. Together, they provide a telco-oriented use case, which provides feedback and requirements to the work on the...

Chapter 11

Data Intensive Enterprise Applications (pages 158-165)

Peter Izsak, Aidan Shribman

Today almost all big enterprises act globally, which results in a growing need for a new kind of data analytics. Imagine a company where data from distribution and sales needs to be combined with increasing online sales on multiple...

Chapter 12

Cloud Computing for Earth Observation (pages 166-191)

Roberto Cossu, Claudio Di Giulio, Fabrice Brito, Dana Petcu

This chapter elaborates on the impact and benefits Cloud Computing may have on Earth Observation. Earth Observation satellites generate in fact Tera- to Peta-bytes of data, and Cloud Computing provides many capabilities that allow an...

Chapter 13

Cloud-TM: An Elastic, Self-Tuning Transactional Store for the Cloud (pages 192-224)

João Barreto, Pierangelo Di Sanzo, Roberto Palmieri, Paolo Romano

By shifting data and computation away from local servers towards very large scale, world-wide spread data centers, Cloud Computing promises very compelling benefits for both cloud consumers and cloud service providers: freeing...

Chapter 14

Storage Security and Technical Challenges of Cloud Computing (pages 225-240)

Shantanu Pal

Cloud computing has leaped ahead as one of the biggest technological advances of the present time. In cloud, users can upload or retrieve their desired data from anywhere in the world at anytime, making this the most important and...

Chapter 15

Flashing in the Cloud: Shedding Some Light on NAND Flash Memory Storage Systems (pages 241-266)

Jalil Boukhobza

Data and storage systems are one of the most important issues to tackle when dealing with cloud computing. Performance, in terms of data transfer and energy cost, predictability, and scalability are the main challenges researchers...

Chapter 16

XtreemFS: A File System for the Cloud (pages 267-285)

Jan Stender, Michael Berlin, Alexander Reinefeld

Cloud computing poses new challenges to data storage. While cloud providers use shared distributed hardware, which is inherently unreliable and insecure, cloud users expect their data to be safely and securely stored, available at...

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