Cloud Storage and Retrieval - A User Perspective

The young upcoming industry is the cloud storage with lots of potential in terms of growth of storage capacity and the potential of faster retrieval. The architecture of the cloud is designed so as to not only offer unlimited storage capacity, but also has to eliminate the old data backups - created as a part of the constant replication of data. In this paper, the key component is storage-as-a-service solution, that is, the cloud storage is analyzed and comprehended for the storage and retrieval speeds on various free cloud storage sites. The experiments were piloted for files varying in sizes and various time spans. Time spans are deliberated based on network traffic. This paper overall tries to give a snapshot of the data working on different free clouds available. The analysis done gives an identification of the free cloud storage capacity, its performance, betterments and evaluation.