MCloud API For Managing Data in Multi-Cloud Environment

摘要

Cloud computing environment is one of the widely growing software deployment platforms in the world of technology. There is a continuous increase in using the cloud-based storage as service from developers and users. Cloud storage services provide numerous advantages such as high scalability, availability and pay-as-you-go cost model. In addition, cloud providers are offering different options for storage services. For example, Amazon provides S3 service as a scalable, durable and available distributed object store. Azure provides SQL databases as traditional SQL databases. In this domain, one of the biggest challenges is the interoperability between different storage systems from the various cloud providers, due to the lack of the unified methods for accessing, interfacing and managing the stored data. In this paper, we present our approach to address this challenge by building a system that enables the users and developers to manage their data hosted in different storage systems from the various cloud providers for a single point of interface. Our prototype is under evaluation.