Inside dropbox
Idílio Drago, Marco Mellia, Maurizio Matteo Munafò, Anna Sperotto, Ramin Sadre, Aiko Pras · 2012
Personal cloud storage services are gaining popularity. With a rush of providers to enter the market and an increasing offer of cheap storage space, it is to be expected that cloud storage will soon generate a high amount of Internet traffic. Very little is known about the architecture and the performance of such systems, and the workload they have to face. This understanding is essential for designing efficient cloud storage systems and predicting their impact on the network.