Object storage architecture in cloud for unstructured data

Abstract

Digital data both structured and unstructured data is everywhere and continues to grow approximately every two years. Due to increasing uses of data, creating tremendous data storage challenges in all industry. Object based Storage can be applied in both public and private clouds service models. Object based storage is used to store the data from various users through REST API Using HTTP(S) protocol and it also stores the virtual machines images as objects in cloud environment. Cloud storage services are used by all enterprises, home users and researchers to store their files that vary in size and formats. With the huge amount of stored data which is mostly unstructured, comes the related issue of finding the exact data relevant to the requirements of a user. This paper will cover the need of object storage system in cloud computing for massive unstructured digital static data and why traditional approaches are insufficient to meet this challenge. The basic architecture of object storage systems, how the object storage system supports cloud storage environment to store unstructured data effectively. Additionally we will compare and contrast the major object based storage cloud providers in use today including Google, Microsoft and Amazon.