Mobile cloud storage services allow a smartphone user to create, backup and organize their files, folders, music, and photos. The services are similar to other cloud computing models and services. Usually, the storage providers offer a limited free usage tier and charge for additional storage space. Some of the smartphone manufacturers include their own mobile cloud storage service and app with … [Read more...]

With so much of work and personal lives revolving around computers, just about everyone has a surplus of data, and they all need somewhere to store it. But what’s the best option? There are few methods of storing digital data - either locally on the hard drive, optical drive, memory cards, tape drive or remotely with a third-party service. Both of the options have distinct advantages and … [Read more...]

The cloud storage has the advantage of pay for use and also it offers elastic scalability. There are challenges of mobile devices like limited bandwidth, limited computing power, and also limited storage (for backup) which has led the manufacturers and service providers to develop some value-added mobile cloud storage services. Mobile cloud storage is a storage service which is accessible … [Read more...]

Deniable Encryption is like tit for tat. Let us as assume, you want to decipher an encrypted file of your enemy. If an encrypted file gives you wrong information, you are likely to miss it. The required effort to find the correct file will consume too much time. Deniable encryption is a type of encryption that allows to convincingly deny that usable data is encrypted or keeps no way to be able to … [Read more...]

Users commonly seek the difference between Object Storage and Block Storage. We have good number of publications on this website on object storage to point towards the differences, but often that process was as a part of answering some other question, such as Methods of Encryption in Cloud Object Storage. Object Storage is newer technology. Object storage has a flat structure where files are … [Read more...]

Users can encrypt each object on cloud storage using the provider's way, such as using private and public keys. Throughout various articles on this site we discussed about cloud storage and security methods. We often talk around data encryption on cloud storage but avoid going in-depth. Object Storage is a data storage architecture which manages data as objects. Each object typically includes the … [Read more...]

IBM Cloud CDN needs Pay-as-you-go account. We have not tested the lite version of IBM Cloud Object Storage (free trial version) for the presence of features of OpenStack Swift. In this guide, we will show how to upload objects to IBM Cloud CDN or Object Storage using OpenStack Swift client and our a helper Python script. OpenStack Swift already have long known Python clients. We have a lot of … [Read more...]