Abstract: Cloud storage provides for accessible interfaces, near-instant elasticity and scalability, multi-tenancy, and metered resources within a framework of distributed resources acing to provide highly fault tolerant solutions with high data durability. However, cloud storage has drawbacks and limitations which are addressed by: a graphical user interface which portrays content ingested from third party sources in its original folder contexts and determines what folder locations each knowledge worker will see in the interface rather than how they are uploaded onto the remote storage; a centralized determination of incremental ingestion of changes from a data source to a cloud storage repository that should be written; and a responsive method of obtaining query results for policies that evaluate one or more clauses against a cloud storage repository containing large data sets; and a means of maintaining/refreshing of statistics for large data sets within a cloud storage repository.