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On I/O Performance And Cost Efficiency Of Cloud Storage: A Client's Perspective, Binbing Hou
On I/O Performance And Cost Efficiency Of Cloud Storage: A Client's Perspective, Binbing Hou
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Cloud storage has gained increasing popularity in the past few years. In cloud storage, data are stored in the service provider’s data centers; users access data via the network and pay the fees based on the service usage. For such a new storage model, our prior wisdom and optimization schemes on conventional storage may not remain valid nor applicable to the emerging cloud storage.
In this dissertation, we focus on understanding and optimizing the I/O performance and cost efficiency of cloud storage from a client’s perspective. We first conduct a comprehensive study to gain insight into the I/O performance behaviors …