Integration of cloud computing and P2P: A future storage infrastructure

By integrating distributed storage with visualization technologies, cloud storage provides an effective solution to huge network data storage. By integrating P2P techniques into pure cloud, a reliable cloud storage P2Pcloud is proposed. In P2Pcloud, an extendable cloud built on unstructured P2P topology can share heavy load of storage cloud so that a core cloud based on a chord ring can focus on backup of metadata. Thus, it can guarantee good QoS for immensely multiuser and high scalability of the whole system.