Autonomic cloud storage: Challenges at stake

Abstract

While the cloud computing paradigm is progressively being adopted by companies aiming to deliver large-scale distributed services, such as Amazon, IBM, Google or Yahoo!, the service level provided for data storage remains rather basic. This talk will discuss several issues related to building advanced facilities for data sharing on cloud infrastructures. We will discuss how open issues raised by the need for efficient, secure and reliable storage service for data intensive distributed applications running in cloud environments may be addressed by enabling an autonomic behavior for the cloud storage infrastructure. © 2010 IEEE.