Use of cloud storage in medical information systems

Consistency Management in Cloud Storage Systems

With the emergence of cloud computing, many organizations have moved their data to the cloud in order to provide scalable, reliable and high available services. As these services mainly rely on geographically-distributed data replication to guarantee good performance and high availability, consistency comes into question. The CAP theorem discusses tradeoffs between consistency, availability, an...

Use of light in seed potato storage

Survivable Information Storage Systems

A s society increasingly relies on digitally stored and accessed information, supporting the availability, integrity, and confidentiality of this information is crucial. We need systems in which users can securely store critical information, ensuring that it persists, is continuously accessible, cannot be destroyed, and is kept confidential. A survivable storage system would provide these guara...

Storage of information by medical journals.

SIR,-Like you in your Nov 17 editorial "Brevity in The Lancet" we decided to "store, rather than print, the fine detail" of certain articles which we call, in their published form, Technical Briefs. We have published 5-10 in each monthly issue since 1986. We have been surprised at the rarity of requests for these stored details: among several hundred Technical Briefs published so far, we have r...

Information Systems: Secure Access and Storage in the Age of Cloud Computing

Given that cloud computing is a remotely accessed service, the connection between provider and customer needs to be adequately protected against all known security risks. In order to ensure this, an open and clear specification of all standards, algorithms and security protocols adopted by the cloud provider is required. In this paper, we review current issues concerned with security threats to...