A Multi-Cloud Storage Management System for Improving Storage Availability

Abstract

The invention provides a multi-cloud-storage management system capable of improving storage availability. In order to overcome defects in the existing cloud storage uploading interface and multi-cloud-storage data management, the invention puts forward a multi-cloud-storage management system capable of improving storage availability, thereby improving data reliability, optimizing an uploading rate, eliminating repeated data in cloud storage, and providing a convenient directory structure management.

Description

technical field [0001] The present invention relates to the technical field of the Internet, in particular to a multi-cloud storage management system that improves storage availability. Background technique [0002] As an emerging network storage technology, cloud storage refers to the collection of a large number of different types of storage devices in the network through application software to work together through functions such as cluster applications, network technology or distributed file systems, and jointly provide data to the outside world. A system of storage and business access functions. Simply put, cloud storage is an emerging solution to put storage resources on the cloud for people to access. Users can connect to the cloud through any network-connected device to access data conveniently at any time and anywhere. [0003] Cloud storage services provide customers with reliable, scalable and low-cost data hosting functions. More and more enterprises and organ...

AI Technical Summary

Problems solved by technology

[0004] However, relying solely on a specific cloud storage provider has some potentially serious problems

First, it can lead to vendor lock-in issues, users are completely restricted to a certain vendor, and switching vendors is costly

Second, transient failures lead to temporary unavailability of services, or permanent failures lead to data loss, such as the power problem in 2012 that made Amazon services unavailable

However, Apache Libcloud does not provide metadata information management and cannot eliminate duplicate data on the cloud storage side; object storage in cloud storage services adopts a flat data organization structure, often two or three layers, and does not provide a convenient directory structure for users to view ;In addition, the unified interface does not take into account the problem of long transmission time caused by using the common upload interface of cloud storage when uploading large files. Due to the influence of network conditions, uploading files will also fail, affecting service quality and system availability

[0006] It can be seen from the above that the use of cloud storage can provide data storage services for enterprises or individuals, and reduce maintenance costs, but the following problems still exist in the prior art: First, only a single cloud storage provider is used, and there is a problem of supplier lock-in , service interruptions may lead to unavailability; secondly, although the existing work has a unified operation interface for multiple cloud storage providers, it ignores the performance problem of the common upload file interface of cloud storage; For the problem of long time, due to the influence of network conditions, the uploading failure will also occur, which will reduce the service quality of the uploading file interface; in addition, the existing cloud storage service does not provide metadata management, which cannot solve the problem of duplicate data on the cloud storage end

The object storage in the cloud storage service adopts a flat data organization structure, usually two or three layers, and does not provide a convenient directory structure for users to view

Images