From File Systems to the Cloud and Back Cloud storages today are an excellent alternative to storing information on regional computer system or in NAS storage. Started with Amazon S3, such services are offered by a lots of business, including Microsoft with their Azure Blob Storage. The benefits of cloud storage are almost unlimited storage capacity (use as much as you need, not as you have), the range between the storage and your location (the information will not be lost in a mishap or fire, and gain access to of third parties to your information is seriously restricted), reduced expense of data management. At the very same time cloud storage works in the way that does not match routine techniques to storage access, such as hierarchical file systems and relational databases. Internally designed as big tables with an index and BLOB field for information, they don't give adequate versatility that file systems or database management systems can use to the developer and user. The de...