Cloud drive storage is the mounting of storage
capacity provided by a cloud storage
service so that it appears to the server as a normal drive letter. In this manner, the server
can treat the cloud storage as if it were a drive on direct-attached
storage or a shared
storage filer so files can be easily saved to and restored from the cloud.
This practice makes it easy for applications to access the cloud storage -- no middleware or special cloud storage APIs
are required; the application just needs to know what drive letter it should direct its requests
to.
The term “cloud drive” has been popularized in part by Amazon, which offers the Amazon Cloud
Drive cloud storage service but many other services offer the same interface and access to cloud
storage.
This was last updated in August 2011
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