Secure Cloud Storage Solution with “Seafile” & “NextCloud”: A Resilient Efficiency Assessment

Authors

  • Gavin Dutcher 1Department of Information Assurance, College of Business, St. Cloud State University, Minnesota, USA
  • Koku Azianyo Department of Information Assurance, College of Business, St. Cloud State University, Minnesota, USA
  • Thivanka P.B. M. Dissanayake Department of Information Assurance, College of Business, St. Cloud State University, Minnesota, USA
  • Akalanka B. Mailewa Department of Computer Science & Information Technology, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31357/ait.v3i2.7341

Keywords:

attacks, cloud efficiency, data encryption, Google cloud, Seafile cloud, security and privacy

Abstract

Storage and file synchronization have become increasingly important services in our everyday lives. With cloud storage providers giving users access to file space in the cloud, one might wonder how efficient these cloud storage providers are with their encryption methods. There are many different cloud storage providers and programs to set up a cloud storage solution. This paper focuses on two secure cloud storage solutions, Seafile, and NextCloud, and determines the efficiency of these cloud storage solutions’ encryption methods. By determining the efficiency of these secure cloud storage providers’ encryption methods, it can help others determine which of these providers will fit their needs. To determine efficiency, the CPU, memory, and network usage of these cloud storage solutions will be measured at idle and when files are being uploaded to them. To measure the CPU, memory, and network usage, ‘dstat’ will be used to capture their usages and record them to a CSV file. It is expected that both cloud solutions will have better performance when they have files being uploaded to them with no encryption. However, with the encryption methods of both cloud solutions being lightweight, that was not the case.

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Published

2024-04-06

How to Cite

Gavin Dutcher, Koku Azianyo, Thivanka P.B. M. Dissanayake, & Akalanka B. Mailewa. (2024). Secure Cloud Storage Solution with “Seafile” & “NextCloud”: A Resilient Efficiency Assessment. Advances in Technology, 3(2). https://doi.org/10.31357/ait.v3i2.7341

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Volume 3 Issue 2 (2023)

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