Distributed Cloud Storage Across Multiple Providers
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional cloud storage systems are vulnerable to technical errors, natural disasters, malicious attacks, and legal compliance issues due to their reliance on a single provider, leading to data integrity, security, and availability concerns.
Innovation Solution
Implementing distributed cloud-based data storage across multiple service providers, where data is split into redundant portions and distributed geographically, allowing for secure, reliable, and fast access even if multiple providers are compromised, with dynamic configuration options for storage parameters like speed, cost, and security.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If cloud storage is provided by a single provider, then service simplicity and ease of operation are improved, but data security, reliability, and availability deteriorate due to vulnerability to technical errors, natural disasters, and malicious attacks
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments cloud storage services across multiple providers instead of relying on a single provider. Data is divided and distributed across several independent cloud storage providers, so that no single provider holds complete control or vulnerability point. This segmentation maintains operational simplicity for users while improving security and reliability through distribution.
2Reliability
If data is distributed across multiple providers, then data security and reliability are improved, but system complexity and difficulty of management increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a coordination layer or intermediary system that manages the complexity of distributed storage across multiple providers. This intermediary handles data segmentation, distribution, retrieval coordination, and provider management, shielding users from the underlying system complexity while maintaining the security and reliability benefits of multi-provider distribution.
3Ease of operation
If cloud storage relies on a single provider, then operational control is simplified, but control over data location and compliance with varying legal requirements deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by distributing data across multiple providers in different geographic locations, each subject to different legal jurisdictions. This allows specific portions of data to be stored in locations that comply with relevant legal requirements, while the overall system maintains simplified operational control through unified management interfaces.
Data Source
AI summary
Distributed cloud-based data storage divides a file for storage into a number of portions that are separately stored with two or more storage service providers. The division and/or transmission of the file may be implemented based on arbitrary criteria, including random selection, an applied storage policy or assignment of a given portion to a corresponding storage service provider as examples. One or more portions of the file may be assembled into an upload file that is transmitted to and received from a storage provider. The portions of the file received from the storage provider may be used to reconstruct the file.