Contents: On Construction of a Cloud Storage System with Heterogeneous Software-Defined Storage Technologies; Secure Cloud Based Approach for Mobile Devices User Data; An Efficient and Secure Big Data Storage in Cloud Environment by Using Triple Data Encryption Standard; Secured Storage Mechanism for the Cloud-Based Banking Applications Using ECC; Network Function Virtualization over Cloud-Cloud Computing as Business Continuity Solution; Cloud Repositories for Research Data – Addressing the Needs of Researchers; User-Controlled Resource Management in Federated Clouds; A Systematic Review on Cloud Storage Mechanisms Concerning e-Healthcare Systems; Development of a Measurement Software for the Characterization of WORM Devices for Novel Memory Storage Applications