StoArranger: a new service could improve cloud storage usage on mobile devices read more at here www.spinonews.com/index.php/item/796-stoarranger-a-new-service-could-improve-cloud-storage-usage-on-mobile-devices

Researchers from Binghamton University, the state university of New York, designed and developed a new service could improve the performance of mobile devices that save data to the cloud.  

Storage and computing power is limited on mobile devices, making it necessity to store data in the cloud.

However, with infinite apps the user experience isn't always smooth. Battery life can be taxed due to extended synchronization times and clogged networks when multiple apps are trying to access the cloud all at the same time.

Yifin Zhang, assistant professor of computer science at Binghamton University's and his team designed and developed StoArranger, a service to intercept, coordinate and optimize requests made by mobile apps and cloud storage services.      

This service works as a "middleware system," so there is no change to how apps or an iPhone or Android-device run, just improved performance of both the device and network.

StoArranger takes cloud storage requests either to upload a file or to open a file for editing and orders them in the best way to save power, get things completed as quickly as possible and minimize the amount of data used to complete the tasks.

Even though, the work could affect millions of mobile devices and users, for example Microsoft's cloud computing and storage system Azure had 10 trillion objects stored on its servers.

It is only a promising first step in the development of StoArranger, which isn't commercially available.  

Zhang said, we are planning on developing an app for public use, and trying to solve problems without changing operating systems or the existing apps, which makes our solution practical and scalable to existing smartphone users.