Cloud Data Storage
Abstract
A variety of sensors feed streams of data to cloud applications or simply generate content. An ever increasing number of cloud-based services collect detailed data about their services and information about the users of these services. Computer clouds provide the vast amounts of storage demanded by many applications. The network-centric data storage model is particularly useful for mobile devices with limited power reserves and local storage.
The discussion of cloud storage starts with a review of the storage technology followed by an overview of storage models and by a discussion of the evolution of the file systems from distributed file system to parallel file systems, then to the file systems capable ...
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