Sharoes: A Data Sharing Platform for Outsourced Enterprise Storage Environments
Singh, A.
Ling Liu
Almaden Res. Center, Storage Syst., IBM, San Jose, CA;
This paper appears in: Data Engineering, 2008. ICDE 2008. IEEE 24th International Conference on
Publication Date: 7-12 April 2008
On page(s): 993-1002
Location: Cancun,
ISBN: 978-1-4244-1836-7
INSPEC Accession Number: 9963787
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/ICDE.2008.4497508
Current Version Published: 2008-04-25
Abstract
With fast paced growth of digital data and exploding storage management costs, enterprises are looking for new ways to effectively manage their data. One such cost-effective paradigm is the storage-as-a-service model, in which enterprises outsource their storage to a storage service provider (SSP) by storing data at a remote SSP-managed site and accessing it over a high speed network. Often for a variety of reasons, enterprises find it unacceptable to fully trust the SSP and prefer to store data in an encrypted form. This typically limits collaboration and data sharing among enterprise users due to complex key management and access control challenges. In this paper, we propose a platform called SHAROES that provides data sharing capability over such outsourced storage environments. SHAROES provide rich *nix-like data sharing semantics over SSP stored data, without trusting the SSP for data confidentiality or access control. SHAROES is unique in its ability in reducing user involvement during setup and operation through the use of in-band key management and allows a near-seamless transition of existing storage environments to the new model. It is also superior in performance by minimizing the use of expensive public-key cryptography in metadata management. We present the architecture and implementation of various SHAROES components and our experiments demonstrate performance superior to other proposals by over 40% on a number of benchmarks.
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