A Survey on SNIA Cloud Data Management Interface for Cloud Storage

Abstract: The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) is an ISO/IEC standard that provides simplicity and data storage interoperability to customers across a wide range of cloud solutions.This standard is applicable to private, public and hybrid clouds and it provides end users with the ability to control the destiny of their data and ensure hassle-free data access, data protection and data migration form one cloud service to another.This paper presents overview of CDMI which allows applications to create, retrieve, update and delete data elements from the Cloud. As part of this interface the client will be able to discover the capabilities of the cloud storage offering and use it to manage containers and the data placed in them. It allows metadata to be set on containers and their contained data elements. This standard is used by administrative and management applications to manage containers, accounts, security access and monitoring/billing information.

Keywords: Cloud Storage, Cloud Computing, CDMI, SNIA, cloud Storage Interface