Data Storage and Retrieval with Deduplication in Secured Cloud Storage

The Cloud Storage can be depicted as a service model where raw or processed data is stored, handled, and backed-up remotely while accessible to multiple users simultaneously over a network. Few of the ideal features of cloud storage is reliability, easy deployment, disaster recovery, security for data, accessibility and on top of that lesser overall storage costs which removes the hindrance of purchasing and maintaining the technologies for cloud storage. In this modern technology world, massive amount of data are produced in day to day life. So, it has become necessary to handle those big data on demand which is a challenging task for current data storage systems. The process of eliminating redundant copies of data thereby reducing the storage overhead is termed as Data Deduplication (DD). One of the ultimate aim of this research is to achieve ideal deduplication on secured data of client side. On the other hand as the client’s data are encrypted with different keys, the cross user deduplication is merely impossible as having a single key encryption among multiple user’s leads to an in secure system resulting in fragile to client’s expectations. The proposed research adapts Message Locked Encryption (MLE) technique that looks for redundant files in cloud before uploading the client’s file which eventually reduces the storage. Since the redundant files are swept, the network bandwidth is considerably reduced with respect to the redundant contents uploaded several times.