DATA CONSISTENCY IN MULTI CLOUD STORAGE SYSTEM WITH PASSIVE SERVERS AND NON COMMUNICATING CLOUDS

Abstract

Multi-cloud storage systems are becoming more popular due to the ever-expanding amount of consumer data.
This growth is accompanied by increasing concerns regarding security, privacy, and reliability of cloud storage
solutions. Ensuring data consistency in such systems is especially challenging due to their architecture and
characteristics. Furthermore, the atomicity of operations is not always guaranteed by the clouds’ public APIs. In
this project, we formally define data consistency in multi-cloud storage systems, identify how they can be
violated, and introduce a new method that provably maintains the data consistency in these systems. The
implementation and experiments show that the proposed method can maintain data consistency with a certain
delay in data uploading and that it is scalable with respect to the number of used clouds as well as the number of
users. Integrating this method into multi-cloud storage systems will enhance their usability and reliability