Implementation of Software-Defined Storage Service with Heterogeneous Object Storage Technologies

With the rapid development of information, personal computers are not only popular but also provide cloud services. Cloud Service is a concept that users can upload their requirement via Internet to cloud environment and then receive a response by postprocessing of the cloud environment, for example cloud storage. Software-defined storage (SDS) is a kind of virtualization technology for cloud storage. It uses the software to integrate the resources so as to improve accessibility and usability. There are many different open source projects for SDS in the Internet. This work aims to utilize these open source projects of SDS to improve the integration of the hardware and software resources effectively. In other words, we integrate various SDS open source projects or technologies to implement a cloud system. In the system architecture, we use some open-source software to make the proposed system more compatible and automatically assign a file to an appropriate storage location after users upload files. In addition, a manager can set some parameters to make this system more flexible. We also provide a high usability user interface. The user interface is designed as a web application. According to the concept of cloud services, this interface can be used anywhere and anytime.