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Kurma: Secure geo-distributed multi-cloud storage gateways

  • Stony Brook University

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Abstract

Cloud storage is highly available, scalable, and cost-efficient. Yet, many cannot store data in cloud due to security concerns and legacy infrastructure such as network-attached storage (NAS). We describe Kurma, a cloud storage gateway system that allows NAS-based programs to seamlessly and securely access cloud storage. To share files among distant clients, Kurma maintains a unified file-system namespace by replicating metadata across geo-distributed gateways. Kurma stores only encrypted data blocks in clouds, keeps file-system and security metadata on-premises, and can verify data integrity and freshness without any trusted third party. Kurma uses multiple clouds to prevent cloud outage and vendor lock-in. Kurma’s performance is 52–91% that of a local NFS server while providing geo-replication, confidentiality, integrity, and high availability.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSYSTOR 2019 - Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages109-120
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9781450367493
DOIs
StatePublished - May 22 2019
Event12th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference, SYSTOR 2019 - Haifa, Israel
Duration: Jun 3 2019Jun 5 2019

Publication series

NameSYSTOR 2019 - Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference

Conference

Conference12th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference, SYSTOR 2019
Country/TerritoryIsrael
CityHaifa
Period06/3/1906/5/19

Keywords

  • Cloud storage gateways
  • Multi-cloud
  • Storage security

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