Cloudy, Without a Chance of Data Loss
Wednesday May 5, 2010, 3:00 pm in MCS 135
Speaker: Kevin Bowers, RSA Labs
Abstract: Cloud storage promises to provide consumers with cheap storage that can be accessed at any time, from anywhere. The appeal of such a system is easy to understand, as too is the fear people have of outsourcing the storage of valuable data. Recent failures and loss of data by cloud storage providers has done little to ease these fears. Fear is often a product of the unknown. In this talk we present several newly developed techniques that give the consumer better insight into the cloud, as well as ways to leverage this insight to ensure fault tolerance. Given the right tools, the benefits of cloud storage can be achieved, without a chance of data loss.