Paper Info
Title
Leverage Personal Cloud Storage Services to Provide Shared Storage for Team Collaboration
Abstract
With the rapid development of cloud computing technology, cloud-based team collaboration applications are becoming popular on the Web. Among all the required features for a typical team collaboration application, shared storage for referred documents or produced artifacts by the team is a must-have one. However, existing shared storage solutions for team collaboration applications are far from satisfaction. Some of them rely on self-built storage infrastructure, which could be a big burden, especially for those small or medium vendors. With the prevalence of personal cloud storage services, such as Dropbox and Google Drive, more team collaboration applications allow users to share files from their personal cloud-storage spaces through external shared links, which can partly solve the problem. However, this method is not convenient for team collaboration, neither safe enough. This paper presents an approach to leverage third-part personal cloud-storage services to provide shared storage for team collaboration applications. Compared to existing approaches, our approach provides sophisticated mechanisms to make sure it's more convenient and safer. It brings benefits in three folds: for users, it improves the utilization of personal cloud storage space, for vendors of personal cloud storage service, it helps attract users to use their services, for vendors of team collaboration applications, it reduces the burden of developing self-built storage infrastructure. The approach has been tested in kAct, a task-based team collaboration application provided by Kingdee, and the results are promising.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/SCC.2014.86
IEEE SCC
Keywords
Field
DocType
shared storage,external shared links,team collaboration,file sharing,cloud computing technology,team working,google drive,cloud-based team collaboration applications,personal cloud storage services, shared storage, team collaboration,storage management,self-built storage infrastructure,task-based team collaboration application,web,medium vendors,third-part personal cloud-storage services,personal cloud storage services,referred documents,dropbox,small vendors,cloud computing,kingdee,groupware,kact
World Wide Web,Leverage (finance),Converged storage,Computer science,SAFER,Cloud computing,Personal cloud
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.75
9
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ke Ning1406.80
Zhangbing Zhou237255.74
Liang-Jie Zhang3982138.17