Towards a fast and secure design for enterprise-oriented cloud storage systems

With the rapid development of information technology, enormous volumes of data are being generated by enterprises at all times. The management and storage of these large-scale data have always been challenging enterprises. As these data are usually shared among users in a collaborative manner, secure data access and access performance are 2 key concerns for data storage of enterprises. However, current solutions fail to meet the requirements of enterprises since they suffer from the following drawbacks: (1) they do not support fine-grained access control and cannot meet the strict secure data access requirements of enterprises, and (2) they suffer from the unpredictable access latency. Thus in this paper, we propose Frostor, an enterprise-oriented cloud storage system, which addresses the secure data access issue through a user account and IP-based fine-grained access control mechanism, and guarantees the access performance via a two-level performance optimization mechanism. We further implement Frostor and deploy it on the testbed environment in a real data center. Extensive evaluations have shown that Frostor implements fine-grained access control, while achieving a significant reduction (≥60%) on access latency.