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SUMMARY
Cloud Computing offers its users centralized and inexpensive computing services, facilitating the development of large and scalable applications. Despite the advent of cloud computing, many individuals and companies are reluctant to entrust the cloud with their data.
This project identifies three “nightmare” scenarios that illustrate typical concerns and which discourage wider adoption of cloud computing services: malicious users, and low performance. In this context, the project team aims to adders these scenarios by contributing to the development of secure, verifiable and robust services for storing data on the cloud.
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SOLUTIONS
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Identifying three “nightmare” scenarios for potential users of cloud computing services:
- Malicious users who would secretly install software in the cloud servers to mine the data from commercial users to sell to competitors
- Bugs in the cloud software stack causes data deletion actions to fail silently leaving unintentionally uploaded, incriminating data in the cloud, despite “deletion” by the user
- Low performance of upscaled, higher-end hardware installed to facilitate a growing number of users which I then prevents
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Inventing broadly applicable concepts that address the above scenarios through:
- Designing a secure cloud data storage system
- Developing unique tools that advance the state-of-the-art for profiling and validating applications running on the cloud
- Integrating new hardware storage technologies that improve overall performance for cloud storage
- Devising techniques to predict the performance of a cloud application
- Creating new mechanisms that allow cloud providers to augment their infrastructure seamlessly
- Implementing all developed concepts as part of a comprehensive prototype which will encourage cloud providers to adopt similar concepts in their commercial offerings
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LINK: http://p3.snf.ch/project-136318
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