December 2014
Intermediate to advanced
106 pages
3h 35m
English
With the rapid growth in the size of Cloud data, cost-effective data storage has become one of the key issues in Cloud research, yet the reliability of the huge amounts of Cloud data needs to be fully assured. What we investigate in this book is the trade-off of cost-effective data storage and data reliability assurance in the Cloud. This chapter introduces the background knowledge and key issues of this research.