"Misty" repositories can be a safe alternative to "cloudy"

Computer scientists working in the field of computer technology create a new concept of remote distributed document stores, in which the advantages of cloud computing would be preserved, but without the attendant flaws in the security of cloud technology, which are generated by the fact that the documents are fully stored on one remote server. Instead, scientists proposed a technology in which files do not have a specific place where they would always be located. Data packets are in constant traffic on the network.

Rosario Culmone and Maria Concetta De Vivo from the University of Camerino note that cloud computing contains certain aspects of risk. These aspects are born of the very essence of technology. Another approach might be that the files will not have a specific storage location on the server. The development team, following the "cloud" tradition, also picked up its technology "meteorological" metaphor, calling it "foggy". The results of the study were published by scientists in the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics.

The metaphor accurately reflects the essence of the new development. After all, the fog, unlike the clouds, is scattered in the air and does not acquire stable forms, constantly, literally before our eyes, changing its bizarre outlines. Continuous dynamics - it provides a semblance of a new approach to remote computer storage with a non-permanent natural phenomenon that gave it its name.

As an alternative to cloud storage, foggy storage does not imply storing files on a single server. Thus, it turns out rather a fog of files than their dense cloud. A certain place, where the files would be entirely in the framework of the new technology, simply does not exist.

The new concept assumes distribution of files on a public or private network, without a specific storage location. Thus, there is no single server with which you can access these files. They will be accessible only to those users who have the right to do so.

The new technology uses standard network protocols, but in an unusual way. Through the "virtual buffers" of Internet routers, it provides an infinite transfer of data packets and, thus, the file will not reside on a single computer.

Based on sciencedaily.com

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