Data intensive storage services for cloud environments

This book provides an overview of the current and potential approaches towards data storage services and its relationship to cloud environments, bringing together research on storage technologies in cloud environments and various disciplines useful for both professionals and researchers"--Provided by publisher

Commercial and Distributed Storage Systems Spyridon V. Gogouvitis, Athanasios Voulodimos, Dimosthenis Kyriazis. Pages 1-8. Distributed storage systems are becoming the method of data storage for the new generation of applications, as it appears a promising solution to handle the ... Sample PDF $37.50 2. Key Distributed Components for a Large-Scale Object Storage Miriam Allalouf, Ghislain Chevalier, Danny Harnik, Sivan Tal. Pages 9-26. This chapter discusses distributed mechanisms that serve as building blocks in the construction of the VISION Cloud object service. Two are fundamental building ... Sample PDF $37.50 3. Content Centric Storage and Current Storage Systems Michael C. Jaeger, Uwe Hohenstein. Pages 27-46. Content-centric storage represents an approach for handling large amounts of data. It is one of the innovations pursued by the VISION Cloud project. The goal of ... Sample PDF $37.50 4. Business Models and Billing Challenges Javier Martínez Elicegui, Lei Xu, Emilio García Escobar. Pages 47-59. The advent of the Cloud has leveraged a number of challenges, both for customers and service providers. Companies willing to embrace the new paradigm must face ... Sample PDF $37.50 5. Towards Federation and Interoperability of Cloud Storage Systems Sebastian Dippl, Michael C. Jaeger, Achim Luhn, Alexandra Shulman-Peleg, Gil Vernik. Pages 60-71. While it is common to use storage in a cloud-based manner, the question of true interoperability is rarely fully addressed. This question becomes even more ... Sample PDF

SLA Management in Storage Clouds Nikoletta Mavrogeorgi, Spyridon V. Gogouvitis, Athanasios Voulodimos, Vasilios Alexandrou. Pages 72-93. The need for online storage and backup of data constantly increases. Many domains, such as media, enterprises, healthcare, and telecommunications need to store ... Sample PDF $37.50 7. Cloud Access Control Mechanisms Ciro Formisano, Lucia Bonelli, Kanchanna Ramasamy Balraj, Alexandra Shulman-Peleg. Pages 94-108. Cloud storage systems provide highly scalable and continuously available storage services to millions of geographically distributed clients. In order for users to ... Sample PDF $37.50 8. Compliance in the Cloud Lucia Bonelli, Luisa Giudicianni, Angelo Immediata, Antonio Luzzi. Pages 109-131. Despite the huge economic, handling, and computational benefits of the cloud technology, the multitenant and geographically distributed nature of clouds hides a ... Sample PDF $37.50 9. Media Convergence and Cloud Technologies: Smart Storage, Better Workflows Mirko Lorenz, Linda Rath-Wiggins, Wilfried Runde, Alberto Messina, Paola Sunna, Giorgio Dimino, Maurizio Montagnuolo, Roberto Borgotallo. Pages 132-144. Why do media organizations look out for cloud storage? In short, the media industry as a whole is facing various challenges. Due to digital convergence there is ... Sample PDF $37.50 10. Telecommunication Industry: Storage and Mobility Fredrik Solsvik, Michel Dao. Pages 145-157. The operators Telefónica, Orange, and Telenor represent the telecommunication industry in the VISION Cloud project. Together, they provide a telco-oriented use ... Sample PDF $37.50 11. Data Intensive Enterprise Applications Peter Izsak, Aidan Shribman. Pages 158-165. Today almost all big enterprises act globally, which results in a growing need for a new kind of data analytics. Imagine a company where data from distribution and ...

12. Cloud Computing for Earth Observation Roberto Cossu, Claudio Di Giulio, Fabrice Brito, Dana Petcu. Pages 166-191. This chapter elaborates on the impact and benefits Cloud Computing may have on Earth Observation. Earth Observation satellites generate in fact Tera- to Peta-bytes ... Sample PDF $37.50 13. Cloud-TM: An Elastic, Self-Tuning Transactional Store for the Cloud João Barreto, Pierangelo Di Sanzo, Roberto Palmieri, Paolo Romano. Pages 192-224. By shifting data and computation away from local servers towards very large scale, world-wide spread data centers, Cloud Computing promises very compelling ... Sample PDF $37.50 14. Storage Security and Technical Challenges of Cloud Computing Shantanu Pal. Pages 225-240. Cloud computing has leaped ahead as one of the biggest technological advances of the present time. In cloud, users can upload or retrieve their desired data from ... Sample PDF $37.50 15. Flashing in the Cloud: Shedding Some Light on NAND Flash Memory Storage Systems Jalil Boukhobza. Pages 241-266. Data and storage systems are one of the most important issues to tackle when dealing with cloud computing. Performance, in terms of data transfer and energy cost ... Sample PDF $37.50 16. XtreemFS: A File System for the Cloud Jan Stender, Michael Berlin, Alexander Reinefeld. Pages 267-285.

Commercial and Distributed Storage Systems Spyridon V. Gogouvitis, Athanasios Voulodimos, Dimosthenis Kyriazis -- Pages 1-8. Distributed storage systems are becoming the method of data storage for the new generation of applications, as it appears a promising solution to handle the ... Sample PDF $37.50 2. Key Distributed Components for a Large-Scale Object Storage Miriam Allalouf, Ghislain Chevalier, Danny Harnik, Sivan Tal -- Pages 9-26. This chapter discusses distributed mechanisms that serve as building blocks in the construction of the VISION Cloud object service -- Two are fundamental building ... Sample PDF $37.50 3. Content Centric Storage and Current Storage Systems Michael C. Jaeger, Uwe Hohenstein -- Pages 27-46. Content-centric storage represents an approach for handling large amounts of data -- It is one of the innovations pursued by the VISION Cloud project -- The goal of ... Sample PDF $37.50 4. Business Models and Billing Challenges Javier Martínez Elicegui, Lei Xu, Emilio García Escobar -- Pages 47-59. The advent of the Cloud has leveraged a number of challenges, both for customers and service providers -- Companies willing to embrace the new paradigm must face ...…