Supporting User Protection Requirements in Cloud-Based Data Outsourcing

Abstract The cloud is nowadays widely used for storing and managing data, leveraging scalable flexible IT infrastructures while guaranteeing continuous data application availability from anywhere at any time. market characterized by a rich diversified offering that usually comes as predefined configurations (plans), which can be adopted to outsource collections. Such plans exhibit different features characteristics, make suitable scenarios. Seemingly trivial problem, selecting plan responds well the needs of owner actually far easy. In fact, problem entails number challenges need carefully addressed, ranging representing reasoning on plans’ permitting owners formulate (and have enforced) expressive requirements identify an optimal (combination of) plan(s) without requiring deep technical knowledge technology jargon. this paper, we address discussing some its main challenges, illustrating research directions state-of-the-art solutions.