Building the Public Storage Utility | SNIA

Abstract

The holy grail of cloud storage is to make storage into a utility. That is, an ubiquitous, standard, public resource, in the same sense that electricity and tap water are today. What makes utility storage difficult is that unlike water or electricity each user's data is unique and private. In this presentation we propose a solution to this problem. Our proposed solution enables a global anonymous public storage service where the storage system has no knowledge about users, or the data or metadata they store. Yet each user has their own private and secure storage space. Further, we consider some of the payment options that exist within a fully anonymous storage utility.

Learning Objectives

Requirements of utility storage
How to secure data without knowledge of user identities
Methods for anonymous purchase of storage resources