A survey of cloud storage facilities

Dewan, Hrishikesh and Hansdah, RC (2011) A survey of cloud storage facilities. In: 2011 IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES), 4-9 July 2011, Washington, DC.

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Abstract

There are many applications such as software for processing customer records in telecom, patient records in hospitals, email processing software accessing a single email in a mailbox etc. which require to access a single record in a database consisting of millions of records. A basic feature of these applications is that they need to access data sets which are very large but simple. Cloud computing provides computing requirements for these kinds of new generation of applications involving very large data sets which cannot possibly be handled efficiently using traditional computing infrastructure. In this paper, we describe storage services provided by three well-known cloud service providers and give a comparison of their features with a view to characterize storage requirements of very large data sets as examples and we hope that it would act as a catalyst for the design of storage services for very large data set requirements in future. We also give a brief overview of other kinds of storage that have come up in the recent past for cloud computing.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Publisher:	IEEE
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to IEEE. USA
Keywords:	Amazon Web Services;Blob;Cloud Computing;Google AppEngine;Structured Storage Type;Unstructured Storage Type;Windows Azure
Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > Computer Science & Automation
Date Deposited:	19 Mar 2013 09:54
Last Modified:	19 Mar 2013 09:54
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/46044

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