Service-oriented storage resource architecture for cloud computing

Cloud computing, as an emerging computing model, is drawing much attention from academia and industry. Storage resource, computing resource and network resource are three basic resources in a cloud computing infrastructure. How to utilize these resources efficiently and conveniently is a big challenge for building a good cloud computing infrastructure. This paper presents a service-oriented storage resource architecture intended to enable efficient storage resource utilization and management in a cloud computing infrastructure. A Web Service-based hierarchical Storage Resource Management approach is introduced into the design and implementation of such a system, and a concept-proofing system built on LAN and Linux has been developed. A WAN-based prototyping system is under development. Another idea of this paper is that it hopes to bring in a new prospective for the research of cloud computing infrastructure.