New Proposed Robust, Scalable and Secure Network Cloud Computing Storage Architecture

Fawaz S. Al-Anzi, Ayed A. Salman, Noby K. Jacob

Compute Engineering Department, Kuwait University, Kuwait City, Kuwait.

DOI: 10.4236/jsea.2014.75031                

Abstract

Cloud computing describes highly scalable computing resources provided as an external service via the internet. Economically, the main feature of cloud computing is that customers only use what they need, and only pay for what they actually use. Resources are available to be accessed from the cloud at any time, and from any location via the internet. There’s no need to worry about how things are being maintained behind the scenes—you simply purchase the IT service you require. This new, web-based generation of computing utilizes remote servers for data storage and management. One of the challenging issues tackled in the cloud computing is the security of data stored in the service providers’ site. In this paper, we propose a new architecture for secure data storage in such a way that users’ data are encrypted and split into various cipher blocks and distributed among different service providers site rather than solely depend on single provider for data storage. This architecture ensures better reliability, availability, scalability and security.

Keywords

Cloud Computing, Data Storage, RAID, Security, Service Provider

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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