Reliability Assurance of Big Data in the Cloud

Preface

Cloud computing is the latest distributed computing paradigm that provides redundant, inexpensive, and scalable resources in a pay-as-you-go fashion to meet various application requirements. Nowadays, with the rapid growth of Cloud computing, the size of Cloud data is expanding at a dramatic speed. A huge amount of data that are big in sizes and large in amounts are generated and processed by Cloud applications with data-intensive characteristics. For maintaining big data in the cloud, data reliability–related issues are considered more important than ever before. However, current data storage and data reliability–ensuring strategies based on multiple replicas have become a bottleneck for big data storage in the Cloud. For storing massive ...