Storage as a Service (StaaS) is a vital component of cloud computing by offering the vision
of a virtually infinite pool of storage resources. It supports a variety of cloud-based data store …

Cloud Storage Providers (CSPs) offer geographically data stores providing several storage
classes with different prices. An important problem facing by cloud users is how to exploit …

Reconfiguring a cloud storage system can improve its overall service. Tuba is a geo-
replicated key-value store that automatically reconfigures its set of replicas while respecting …

Akkio is a locality management service layered between client applications and distributed
datastore systems. It determines how and when to migrate data to reduce response times …

Socially aware services often have a large user base and data of users have to be
partitioned and replicated over multiple geographically distributed clouds. Choosing in …

Geo-distributed clouds provide an intriguing platform to deploy online social network (OSN)
services. To leverage the potential of clouds, a major concern of OSN providers is optimizing …

Abstract Cloud Storage Providers (CSPs) offer geographically dispersed data stores
providing several storage classes with different prices. A vital problem faced by application …

The configuration of a distributed storage system typically includes, among other
parameters, the set of servers and their roles in the replication protocol. Although …

IT enterprises have recently witnessed a dramatic increase in data volume and faced with
challenges of storing and retrieving their data. Thanks to the fact that cloud infrastructures …

Deduplication decreases the physical occupancy of files in a storage volume by removing
duplicate copies of data chunks, but creates data-sharing dependencies that complicate …