To move or not to move: Cost optimization in a dual cloud-based storage architecture

Abstract

IT enterprises have recently witnessed a dramatic increase in data volume and faced with challenges of storing and retrieving their data. Thanks to the fact that cloud infrastructures offer storage and network resources in several geographically dispersed data centers (DCs), data can be stored and shared in scalable and highly available manner with little or no capital investment. Due to diversity of pricing options and variety of storage and network resources offered by cloud providers, enterprises encounter nontrivial choice of what combination of storage options should be used in order to minimize the monetary cost of managing data in large volumes. To minimize the cost of data storage ma..