Today a cloud computing user uses different services for different purposes. For example a user may use Google Docs and dropbox for storing data. Similarly business may use Amazon S3 or Google Stroage.
Such a phenomenon wherein a user- individual or business uses many storage services is called multi-cloud storage
Such a phenomenon wherein a user- individual or business uses many storage services is called multi-cloud storage
As society moves toward cloud computing, we observe that cloud services may fail or become inaccessible, which particularly affects business clients. An approach to remedy this situation relies on a cloud of clouds, which results from the agglomeration of multiple separate clouds. There, we rely on the independence of clouds in order to enhance the dependability of any cloud service.
The cloud-of-clouds approach tolerates service outages and security incidents affecting individual clouds. Although existing cloud platforms provide high availability and reliability using internal replication, some common failure modes remain and services in the cloud of clouds tolerate them. The platform of a cloud provider is usually treated as a single security domain typically built using homogeneous components with little internal diversification. A cloud of clouds provides heterogeneity by leveraging multiple administrative domains, which is important for building intrusion-tolerant systems. Source
Fact of the matter is, we all use more than just Dropbox or SugarSync. A vast majority of us among cloud storage service users almost always have accounts with several cloud storage providers, and use them too. At the very least, we have both Dropbox andGoogle Drive. If you are like one of our teammate, Samuel, then you are probably using more than 9 cloud storage services for different purposes. He uses Google Drive for all kind of documents, Dropbox and SugarSync general-purpose syncing, Wuala for sensitive documents, Box for business usage, and a bunch of others that everyone else here at BestBackup don’t use. Yup, totally a cloud storage ADHD guy! Source
Tools for managing multi-cloud storage- multi-cloud API
