  Fast, reliable, and efficient data transmission across wide-area networks is
a predominant bottleneck for data-intensive cloud applications. This paper
introduces OneDataShare, which is designed to eliminate the issues plaguing
effective cloud-based data transfers of varying file sizes and across
incompatible transfer end-points. The vision of OneDataShare is to achieve
high-speed data communication, interoperability between multiple transfer
protocols, and accurate estimation of delivery time for advance planning,
thereby maximizing user-profit through improved and faster data analysis for
business intelligence. The paper elaborates on the desirable features of
OneDataShare as a cloud-hosted data transfer scheduling and optimization
service, and how it is aligned with the vision of harnessing the power of the
cloud and distributed computing. Experimental evaluation and comparison with
existing real-life file transfer services show that the transfer throughout
achieved by OneDataShare is 6.5 times greater.
