FSaaS: Configuring Policies for Managing Shared Files Among Cooperating, Distributed Applications

Authors:
Marco Di Sano;Antonella Di Stefano;Giovanni Morana;Daniele Zito
Affiliations:
Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Catania, Catania, Italy;Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Catania, Catania, Italy;Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Catania, Catania, Italy;Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
Venue:
International Journal of Web Portals
Year:
2013

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Abstract

In this paper, the authors introduce and describe the concept of File System as a Services FSaaS, an highly configurable cloud service that enables cooperating, distributed applications to define their own rules and policies for managing sets of files shared. The FSaaS aims to create a logical virtual space, containing references to shared files, whose management layer supports the same functionalities of a file system basic file operations but where each single file can have different policies for consistency, synchronization and replication. This work explains the idea at the base of FSaaS, describes in details its main components and their interactions and illustrates two use cases for better explaining the provided functionalities.