Reducing Failure Probability of cloud storage services using Multi-Clouds

TL;DR

This paper proposes a multi-cloud storage strategy that fragments and replicates data across different providers to enhance security, availability, and reduce costs, while optimizing provider selection within a budget.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach for selecting multiple cloud providers and storing data in chunks with replication to improve reliability and security under budget constraints.

Findings

Enhanced data security through fragmentation and replication.

Reduced costs and improved availability by multi-cloud storage.

Optimized provider selection for maximum data availability.

Abstract

Any information is valuable as long as it has related data. If related data are not put together, the information is meaningless as unrelated data has no value. The mapped information is required only by authenticated users. So there is no necessity to store related information together. If the relations of a database are fragmented into chunks and these chunks are stored at different cloud service providers, it could prevent from any privacy breach and the data stored will be secure. It would also reduce the data transfer costs as the entire data is not always required, for e.g. during updates. Also, instead of storage of chunks at a single CSP, if each chunk or fragment is stored at multiple CSPs it ensures availability and also permits concurrent access. Additionally, it would prevent financial loss during cloud outages and also prevent data lock-in. Replicating data chunks at multiple clouds situated at geographically different locations would also have an additional decrease in response time. The work attempts to select multiple cloud service providers within a given budget so as to ensure maximum availability of data. The entire data can be stored at each of the data centers selected depending on the budget when there is no security or privacy issue. Data can also be stored in chunks by replicating each data chunk at two or more cloud service providers. Different chunks can be replicated at different service providers. The work also attempts to select various cloud service providers to ensure maximum valid data chunks within a given budget.