MSSF: User-Friendly Multi-cloud Data Dispersal

Using a multi-cloud storage solution requires a user to make complex decisions. Making these decisions can be a problem for regular users who are not familiar with multi-cloud storage. We propose MSSF, a Multi-cloud Storage Selection Framework to automatically select a storage dispersal strategy. MSSF formalises the selection process using a knapsack optimisation problem using integer linear programming along with a rule-based system to select a multi-cloud storage strategy that fits the user needs and requires only simple inputs from the user. Our experiments show the performance and usability aspects of our solution, making it useful in real environments.