Authors : Ahmed Barnawi, Abdullah Al-Barakati, Fouad Bajaber, Maraam Al-hafidy, Abdullah Almalais and Seyed Buhari
Abstract: Cloud computing environment is one of the widely growing software deployment platforms in the world of technology. There is a continuous increase in using the cloud-based storage as service from developers. Cloud storage services provide numerous advantages such as high scalability, availability and pay-as-you-go cost model. In addition, cloud providers are offering different options for storage services. For example, Amazon provides S3 service as a scalable, durable and available distributed object store. Azure offers SQL databases as traditional SQL databases. In this domain, one of the biggest challenges is the interoperability among different storage systems provided by the various cloud providers; it is due to the lack of the uniform methods for accessing interfacing and managing the stored data. In this research we extend our previous work to develop a new framework to bridge the some of the gaps between the social web and the social enterprise worlds using the business process management techniques and concepts. We designed and developed a social coordination approach that uses the social networks between persons, tasks and machines to recommend corrective actions in response to specific conflict patterns. In this study, we have presented our approach to address such a challenge by building a system that enables the developers to manage the data hosted in different storage systems of various cloud providers for a single point of interface. We show, through evaluation that our approach is able to provide high usability integrity and facilitate the navigation and interoperability among the different cloud providers. We find out that the performance of MCloud is satisfying and reasonable. In addition, the developers reveal that MCloud has helped them to manage the hosted data in different cloud providers.
Ahmed Barnawi, Abdullah Al-Barakati, Fouad Bajaber, Maraam Al-hafidy, Abdullah Almalais and Seyed Buhari, 2019. Toward a Social Networking Context: Managing and Processing Data over Multi-Cloud Environment. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 14: 7899-7912.