MSSF: A Step towards User-Friendly Multi-cloud Data Dispersal

With an increasing number of companies and individuals adopting cloud computing for their data needs. Naturally, there is a shift in financial and operational costs and and provided services should meet users' performance and cost expectations. We focus on storage and propose MSSF, a Multi-cloud Storage Selection Framework. MSSF contains a basic set of algorithms, a set of security rules and a formal definition of user profiles allowing to fit cloud storage services to user needs. Preliminary experiments investigate the cost differences between two baseline algorithms and user profile models. Considering the promising initial results we provide several observations about the MSSF decision making process that will help with future improvements.