Tracking security log issues occure in Cloud
environment
From the perspective of data security, which has always been an important aspect of quality of
service, Cloud Computing inevitably poses new challenging security threats for number of
reasons. Cloud Computing is not just a third party data warehouse. The data stored in the cloud
may be frequently updated by the users, including insertion, deletion, modification, appending,
reordering, etc. To ensure storage correctness under dynamic data update is hence of paramount
importance. As a complementary approach, researchers have also proposed distributed protocols
for ensuring storage correctness across multiple servers or peers. Again, none of these distributed
schemes is aware of dynamic data operations. As a result, their applicability in cloud data storage
can be drastically limited.
An effective and flexible distributed scheme with explicit dynamic data support to ensure the
correctness of user’s data in the cloud. We rely on erasure correcting code in the file distribution
preparation to provide redundancies and guarantee the data dependability. This construction
drastically reduces the communication and storage overhead as compared to the traditional
replication-based file distribution techniques. Compared to many of its predecessors, which only
provide binary results about the storage state across the distributed servers, the challenge-
response protocol in our work further provides the localization of data error.
A systematic, dedicated approach to Cloud Computing valuation is urgently needed. Previous
work from related fields, like Grid Computing, does not consider all aspects relevant to Cloud
Computing and can thus not be directly applied. Previous approaches tend to mix business
objectives with technological requirements. Moreover, the role of demand behavior and the
consequences it poses on IT requirements needs to be evaluated in a new light. Most important, it
is only possible to value the benefit from Cloud Computing if compared to alternative solutions.
We believe that a structured framework will be helpful to clarify which general business
scenarios Cloud Computing addresses.