IRain: A Personal Storage Cloud for Integrating Web Data Services

Abstract

In this paper, we design and implement IRain, a prototype of storage cloud for computer scientists and graduate students to manage personal data that spreads over the web. IRain (1) integrates personal data with various metainfo structures that comes from different web sites and personal computers; (2) provides a global, unified environment to users and supports user-defined file views via flexible combination of tags; (3) offers an easy way to integrate new web services via a VFS-liked interface.