On construction of a cloud storage system with heterogeneous software-defined storage technologies

Abstract

With the rapid development of networks and Information technologies, cloud computing is not only becoming popular, the types of cloud services available are also increasing. Through cloud services, users can upload their requirements via the Internet to the cloud environment and receive responses following post-processing, for example, with cloud storage services. Software-Defined Storage (SDS) is a virtualization technology for cloud storage services. SDS uses software to integrate storage resources and to improve the accessibility and usability of storage services. Currently, there are many different open source projects available for SDS development. This work aims to utilize these open source projects to improve the efficiency of integration for hardware and software resources. In other words, in this work, we propose a cloud storage system that integrates various open source SDS software to make cloud storage services more compatible and user friendly. The cloud service systems can also be managed in a more convenient and flexible manner. The experimental results demonstrate the benefits of the proposed system.