Title :
Network design requirements for disaster resilience in IaaS clouds
Author :
Souza Couto, Rodrigo ; Secci, Stefano ; Mitre Campista, Miguel ; Kosmalski Costa, Luis Maciel
Author_Institution :
Univ. Fed. do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Abstract :
Many corporations rely on disaster recovery schemes to keep their computing and network services running after unexpected situations, such as natural disasters and attacks. As corporations migrate their infrastructure to the cloud using the infrastructure as a service model, cloud providers need to offer disaster-resilient services. This article provides guidelines to design a data center network infrastructure to support a disaster-resilient infrastructure as a service cloud. These guidelines describe design requirements, such as the time to recover from disasters, and allow the identification of important domains that deserve further research efforts, such as the choice of data center site locations and disaster-resilient virtual machine placement.
Keywords :
business continuity; cloud computing; computer centres; IaaS clouds; attacks; computing services; data center network infrastructure; data center site locations; disaster recovery schemes; disaster resilience; disaster-resilient infrastructure as a service cloud; disaster-resilient services; disaster-resilient virtual machine placement; infrastructure as a service model; natural disasters; network design requirements; network services; Cloud computing; Communication networks; Contingency management; Quality of service; Telecommunication network management; Wide area networks;
Journal_Title :
Communications Magazine, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MCOM.2014.6917402