Title:	UNIFIED METHODOLOGY FOR CLOUD STORAGE PROVIDERS’ APIS AND PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS FOR EFFECTIVENESS OF THE APPROACH
Author(s):	Hira Zahid, Muazzam A. Khan, Muhammad Usman Akram, Abdul Wahid and Asad W. Malik
ISBN:	978-989-8533-85-2
Editors:	Piet Kommers, Pascal Ravesteijn, Guido Ongena and Pedro Isaías
Year:	2019
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Cloud API, Unified Cloud, Unified API, Drop Box API, Google Drive API, PAAS API, SAAS API
Type:	Full Paper
First Page:	195
Last Page:	202
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	Many cloud users do not register for the premium plans to get unlimited access to their storage services. Consequently, they have limited storage. In this study, we design and implement a unified API for cloud storage providers i.e. Dropbox, Google Drive and One Drive to overcome the issue of limited storage. Our study is based on two experiments: web app development and the development of core API. In web app, we developed a simple web app that will be connected to all three cloud storage providers. In the core API, we developed a core API enabling the storage functionality in all the three drives. Both methodologies enable us uploading of the files on all these drives or any one of them. In case one service provider’s server is down, we can upload and retrieve our files from the other storage service provider available via our unified API. PHP core language is used to develop the unified API. The results of our approach are justified using the most accurate and open source tool J-meter. We have compared both methodologies and the results shows that both perform well in terms of latency and throughput when compared to related work in the literature. Furthermore, we also highlight some future directions regarding such research.
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