SPANStore
Zhe Wu, Michael Butkiewicz, Dorian Perkins, Ethan Katz-Bassett, Harsha V. Madhyastha · 2013
By offering storage services in several geographically distributed data centers, cloud computing platforms enable applications to offer low latency access to user data. However, application developers are left to deal with the complexities associated with choosing the storage services at which any object is replicated and maintaining consistency across these replicas.