Massive improvements of the services in the public cloud provide many opportunities for online users. One of the most valuable services of this virtual place is the infrastructure to store data in distributed storages. The public cloud storages let different organizations and enterprises to use the high availability of data, in a cost efficient way, with lowered maintenance burden.
However, utilizing the large scale capacity of (public) cloud storages is not mature trend yet among the individual customers, businesses, and organizations. The cloud storages are still unreliable places for the sensitive and confidential information or back-up copies from trust and privacy perspective. Hence, some public and private organizations, universities, as well as ordinary citizens avoid uploading their critical files to the cloud.
The thesis suggests the idea of customer-oriented data storages as a solution to the shortcomings of public cloud storages. This idea would be a new way to customize the cloud storages which bears more involvement of the customer in managing aspects, as a solution to the current distrust issue on the cloudbased storages and would be a great courage to different type of customers. Furthermore, the thesis evaluates feasibility of the proposed customer-oriented cloud storage architecture based on scenarios inspired from the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM) evaluation approach. Results of the evaluating discussion on the proposed solution in boosting trust in cloud storages and providing more control for cloud storage customers are presented.
