4th International Workshop on Pervasive and Context-Aware Middleware

Research Article

A New Efficient Approach to Store Data in a Cloud Server

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.iccasa.2014.257469,
        author={Hussein Shirvani and Hamed Vahdat-Nejad},
        title={A New Efficient Approach to Store Data in a Cloud Server},
        proceedings={4th International Workshop on Pervasive and Context-Aware Middleware},
        publisher={ACM},
        proceedings_a={PERCAM14},
        year={2015},
        month={3},
        keywords={cloud computing iaas paas storage},
        doi={10.4108/icst.iccasa.2014.257469}
    }
    
  • Hussein Shirvani
    Hamed Vahdat-Nejad
    Year: 2015
    A New Efficient Approach to Store Data in a Cloud Server
    PERCAM14
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/icst.iccasa.2014.257469
Hussein Shirvani1, Hamed Vahdat-Nejad1,*
  • 1: University of Birjand
*Contact email: vahdatnejad@birjand.ac.ir

Abstract

The present study aims at introducing a new efficient approach to store data in a cloud server. The approach is applicable to a group of annotated text files, which are supported by Microsoft Word (docx, doc, pdf, etc.). Instead of the original document, an intermediate file is produced and saved as a Microsoft Excel document for each user. The file contains edited information including highlighted and underlined parts, comments, etc. Whenever a user wants to access his/her document, the intermediate file is attached to the original document and appeared to him/her. The experimental results of 50 users show that a 2.5MB file and in total, 126MB files can be reduced in size to 3MB. It means a large amount of disk space can be saved by the cloud server.