Opinion Article - (2023) Volume 4, Issue 1
A kind of computer data storage known as "cloud storage" places digital data in logical pools that are said to be "on the cloud." The physical environment is often owned and maintained by a hosting business, and the physical storage spans numerous servers (possibly in different regions). These cloud storage companies are in charge of maintaining the physical environment safe, secure, and operational as well as the data accessible and available. To store user, organisation, or application data, people and businesses purchase or lease storage capacity from the providers.
Physical environment • Cloud storage • Computing • Platform • Logical pools
A modest amount of disc space was made available to CompuServe’s consumer users in 1983 so they could upload any files they want. A platform for online business and personal communication called persona link services was introduced by AT and T in 1994. You can think of our electronic gathering place as the cloud because the storage was one of the first to be entirely web based, as stated in their advertising. Since its launch in 2006, Amazon web applications cloud storage service AWS S3 has earned worldwide acclaim and adoption as the storage provider for well-known services including SmugMug, Dropbox, and Pinterest. Box unveiled a personal cloud information management and online file sharing solution for companies in 2005.
Cloud computing is similar to cloud storage in terms of interfaces, near instant elasticity and scalability, multi tenancy, and metered resources because both are based on highly virtualized infrastructure. Services like Amazon S3 or on premises deployments can be utilised to access cloud storage (ViON capacity services). Hosted object storage, file storage, and block storage are the three different kinds of cloud storage. These many kinds of cloud storage each have certain benefits of their own.
Amazon S3, oracle cloud storage, Microsoft azure storage, open stack swift, EMC Atmos, EMC ECS, Hitachi content platform, and distributed storage research initiatives like ocean store and vision cloud are a few examples of object storage services that can be hosted and deployed with cloud storage characteristics. For applications that need access to shared files and demand a file system, examples of file storage services include amazon Elastic File System (EFS) and qumulo core. When utilised for big content repositories, development environments, media stores, or user home directories, this storage is frequently supported by a Network Attached Storage (NAS) server. Dedicated, low latency storage is frequently needed for each server and is provided by a block storage service like amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS). This resembles Direct Attached Storage (DAS) or a Storage Area Network in several ways (SAN). A storage infrastructure that combines cloud storage with on premises storage resources is referred to as hybrid cloud storage. The company typically manages the on site storage, while the management and security of the data stored in the cloud is handled by the public cloud storage provider. An on premises cloud storage gateway that exposes a file system or object storage interface that users can access similarly to a local storage system can be used to establish hybrid cloud storage. The cloud storage gateway offers low latency access to the data through a local cache while transparently transferring data to and from the cloud storage provider. Hybrid cloud storage can be utilised as the main storage infrastructure or as a supplement to an organization's internal storage resources. In either situation, hybrid cloud storage has the potential to offer businesses more scalability and flexibility than conventional on premises storage infrastructure. Hybrid cloud storage offers a number of advantages, such as the capacity to cache frequently used data locally for quick access while inactive cold material is kept off site on the cloud. This can increase performance, save on storage expenses, and conserve space. Additionally, because data is housed in both on-premises and cloud storage systems, hybrid cloud storage can give enterprises higher redundancy and fault tolerance.
It becomes significantly more likely that someone with access to the data will be compromised (e.g., bribed or forced). A single company might have a small staff of administrators, network engineers, and technicians, but a cloud storage company will have many clients and thousands of servers, so it will have a larger technical staff with access to virtually all of the data throughout the facility or possibly the entire business. Employees of the service provider are only permitted limited access to data if the decryption keys are stored by the service user rather than the service provider.
Numerous keys must be supplied to users over secure channels for decryption when multiple users are sharing data in the cloud. When data is dispersed, it is kept in multiple places, which raises the possibility of someone physically gaining access to it without authorization.
For instance, since data is often replicated and relocated, the danger of illegal data recovery dramatically rises with cloud based architecture. For instance, when old equipment is disposed of, drives are reused, and storage space is redistributed. The service level a consumer selects and the service offered determine how data is copied. When encryption is used, confidentiality can be guaranteed. When discarding data, crypto shredding can be utilised (on a disk).
Citation: Scarlette H. "A Type of Computer Data Storage is Called "Cloud Storage"". Int J Innov Res Sci Eng Technol, 2023, 4(1), 1.
Received: 15-Dec-2022, Manuscript No. JIRSET-22-83624 ; Editor assigned: 19-Dec-2022, Pre QC No. JIRSET-22-83624 (PQ); Reviewed: 02-Jan-2023, QC No. JIRSET-22-83624 (Q); Revised: 07-Mar-2023, Manuscript No. JIRSET-22-83624 (R); Published: 15-Mar-2023, DOI: 10.4172/IJIRSET.23.4(1).004
Copyright: © 2023 Scarlette H. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
